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yusuke-of-valla · 5 months

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I hate greyhound more than I hate driving I think

#I'm sure it'd be useful if it was good but I've had to deal with #my bus being delayed for like four hours because the drivers can only drive a certain amount of hours and they didn't have enough #twice #the second time I couldn't garuntee my spot on the next bus because they missed my god damn connection and it was almost sold out #once the greyhound station was closed for the weekend? so we just had to like wait outside in the cold for three hours and the tracking app #sucked #AND I can't fucking ride a bus without getting motion sick #which doesn't happen to me on any other form of transportation #Amtrak was great #I just needed them to run more trains so I can get where I need to #Amtrak your perfect we need to give you all a whole bunch of money #this is my annual anti-greyhounf propoaganda

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ocdhuacheng · 7 months

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To the half of my mutuals in my notes that would vote for Philly over Chicago……. Sleep with one eye open babes.

#betrayal. tragedy and betrayal #ANYWAY PLEASE VOTE CHICAGO ON THE AMTRAK-OFFICIAL USA CITIRS TOURNAMENT #.txt #Chicago #nothing against Philly y’all are great but Chicago is my one true love #truly the best of American cities and if you think otherwise you’re objectively wrong :/#polls

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trainsgenderfoxgirl2816 · 19 days

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Vent to me about trains if ya like :3

YAY :D

So the Milwaukee Road was the First Railroad to use the use 3000 Volt DC power for any significant stretches of Electrification in 1915 (it was adopted by South African Railways in 1925, Cleveland Union Terminal (under the New York Central Railroad), the Soviet Union in 1930, the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1930, Italy in 1933, Brazil in 1935, Spain and Chile in 1945)

however the Primary mainline Electrification system United States would be 11,000 Volts 25 Hertz AC which was Adopted by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1907 between Pelham and Stamford in New York (later all the way between Manhattan and New Haven CT), the Pennsylvania in 1915 between Philadelphia and Paoli (later the Entire PRR mainline between Washington DC and New York as well the entire Philadelphia Suburban Network), the Great Northern railroad in 1922 between Wenatchee and Skykomish (de-electrified in 1956), the Virginian Railroad in 1925 between Mullens and Roanoke (de-electrified in 1962), the Reading Railroad in 1928 for their Half of the Philadelphia Suburban Network, and very Briefly the Norfolk and Western had Electrified the Elkhorn grade with this system but de-electrified in 1940

@amtrak-official

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360nw · 1 year

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Union Station - Portland Oregon - December 2009

#amtrak #oregon #the great pnw #photographers on tumblr #pnw #oregonexplored #eugene #original photography #multnomah county #union station #cityscape #railroad #rails #train

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supercantaloupe · 6 months

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it's so nice when they have staff posted around the waiting area in the station who will not only direct you to your train's gate before it's posted on the signs but will actively ask you which train you're waiting for/where you're going

#sasha speaks #great service thank you amtrak staff at union station dc

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queerpossums · 6 months

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is to much to ask for to get a train from pittsburgh to syracuse without going through cleveland or new york city?????

pittsburgh to erie when?

#rn it takes 6+ hours to get from pittsburgh to upstate ny #i would cry tears of joy if erie and pittsburgh were connected #pittsburgh #philadelphia #new york #syracuse #upstate ny #swpa #appalachia #midwest #great lakes #amtrak #passenger train #public transportation #public transit #trains #rail

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stevethehairington · 7 months

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if i never had to use amtrak again that would be the best day ever

#AMTRAK IS SO FUCKING STUPID #THEY fucked up on a trip i was on a while back and gave me a voucher for it which was great!#but the voucher is apparently ONE USE ONLY???#so if im taking a trip thats less than 300 bucks (which i AM) then basically fuck you you lose the rest of that money #AND THEY DONT MAKE IT CLEAR THAT ITS ONE USE EITHER #so i used it for a 29 dollar ticket. a TWENTY NINE DOLLAR TICKET. when i had 300 bucks to use.#so i LOST 271 #i called them and talked to them and they were nice enough to give me a new voucher for the 271 so i didnt lose it #(bc when i asked WHY they have one use only vouchers the guy literally said uhh idk why. so i was like if u cant explain the reason behind #it it literally shouldnt be a rule)#so now i have a 271 voucher and i would like to use it all but one trip isnt 271 so i wanna book multiple trips at once to use it all #BUT THAT IS LIKE IMPOSSIBLE???#THERES LIKE NO FEATURE THAT ALLOWS ME TO BOOK MULTIPLE TRIPS AT ONCE?#so i called AGAIN to ask someone how #and they were like oh we can do it for you!#i was like great! and started going through my travel details and the lady was like cool we have a train at 6am. and i was like ??#the website said theres one at 10:55 i want that one i dont need to be there at 6 am and she was like oh well we cant book that bc its #not an amtrak train its a capital corridor train #LADY WHAT THE HELL #WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT #I JUST WANT TO BOOK MY STUPID TRIPS AND NOT LOSE MY MONEY!!!!#needless to say.#i fucking hate amtrak #do not reccomend #drive people the exorbitant gas prices are worth it if it means you dont have to use fucking amtrak sdjflkg #mack rambles

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zponds · 8 months

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Additional Locomotives for the 20 Railroad heritage fleets

One thing that I should mention is the idea that the heritage fleets of the New York Central, Pennsylvania Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio, Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago and Northwestern, Milwaukee Road, Burlington Route, Seaboard Air Line, Illinois Central, Gulf Mobile & Ohio, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Atlantic Coast Line, Santa Fe, Norfolk and Western, Missouri Pacific, Rock Island and Southern Railway have the following diesels as helpers and additional engines, and these diesels would be repainted in the railroads’ paint schemes, and these diesels are…

EMD SD9’s

EMD SD60i’s

EMD SD80mac’s

EMD SD70mac‘s

EMD F40ph’s

NOTE: Please keep in mind that all this is optional and I’m unsure if I should make this official or not. But regardless, this idea is fun to think about.

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sharkieboi · 5 months

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my dad: “you should come home earlier so you can spend time with your mother”

me, internally: why the fuck would I do that

#shhh sharkie #I’m specifically a) lying to him about where i’m spending the night tonight #and b) spending as little time at home tomorrow as I can before I come back to the city #I have zero desire to spend any quality time with either of my parents rn #I’m driving to nyc to spend the night with my person tonight and sleep over with them #and then finishing the drive to ct tomorrow to drop off the car and then amtrak the fuck out of there #he’s trying to guilt trip me into spending the night in ct instead of nyc but like why would I do that #yeah i’d love to have an uncomfortable evening with a group of passive aggressive people who judge me and my life #and watch a shitty movie i’ll hate and be judged for how many glasses of wine I have #definitely better than getting free drinks at a gourmet restaurant while i wait for my SO to finish up work #and then go smoke/drink and get lovingly railed within an inch of my life #definitely time with my parents is worth more than that 🙄#edit: coming back to this about a month later (2/2) and i kinda do wish i had arrived earlier to say hi to mom but still #more in that like. my parents have this preconceived notion that I hate them but that isn’t true #and i’d like as many opportunities as i can to disprove that #but also my mom is a self-centered narcissist and any slight against her is the worst crime in the world #so i’m okay missing her. but i did still want to see her.#or any of my siblings. it was just my dad and the pets.#which is great! i love how each of the dogs greet everyone #have to deal with Daisy first cause she needs to be Held and tell you she loves you #and then Dolly needs to lick all the moisturizer off your face and be a little potato #and Odie whines and patiently waits his turn but then he gets swaddled with affection #it’s a whole routine i love them all so much #and i miss my girl so much

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stellamusing · 2 months

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to the mother who saw me struggling to remove gum from the back of my jeans in the bathroom in Penn Station and whipped out a shout travel wipe that somehow miraculously was able to get it off: I love you and appreciate you and would kill for you

#sometimes people suck (leaving gum on a seat edge in the Amtrak waiting room for unsuspecting people to sit on)#but sometimes people are great (the communal spirit of the women’s room which I constantly underestimate until it saves my ass)

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sohannabarberaesque · 3 months

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

Heading back to the motorhome

ABOARD AMTRAK'S JUST-LAUNCHED GREAT RIVER, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN CHICAGO AND WISCONSIN DELLS: "Snagglepuss--?"

"Yes, Huck?"

(This as we were in our coach seats during the journey.)

"So, what exactly did you have in mind between now and Easter Sunday with the motorhome?"

"As in the Easter Parade in Gatlinburg, headed by the Cattanooga Cats even?"

"Obviously."

You could sense as much over the coffee Amtrak manages to serve in such a train as the Great River, giving travellers between Chicago, Milwaukee and the Twin Cities a second rail option alongside the Empire Builder as continues onward to Glacier National Park and the Pacific Northwest--Portland, Seattle even ... this even as the day outside seemed so dreich and dull-looking through Wisconsin.

At any rate, prompting a call to Crazy Claws, our Waterpark Capital contact, reminding him to meet us at the Wisconsin Dells Amtrak station upon arrival--with his remarking that he could just sense that another train was going to arrive in the Dells before too long, adding that he knew where to locate the stored motorhome Huck and I were to pick up.

"Hopefully, CC," remarked I, "you'll be wearing something to cover your hind paws with; ice melting salts, as used on the platform, can cause issues with the foot pads."

Once the train left Portage, we just knew that Wisconsin Dells would be imminent before too long--and how else could it be, even as the train paused briefly to gaze upon the Rocky Islands of the Lower Dells ere the Wisconsin Dells stop was made? And with at least seven or eight other passengers, we decamped from the train and--

"I assume you must be looking for--?" (It was Crazy Claws "himself," standing near a waiting bench on the platform.)

Boy, would it be a surprise, especially following some lunch....

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@warnerbrosentertainment @zodiacfan32 @funtasticworld @theweekenddigest @iheartgod175 @archive-archives @thylordshipofbutts @thebigdingle @themineralyoucrave @screamingtoosoftly @warnerbros-blog1 @indigo-corvus @jellystone-enjoyer @groovybribri @artistic-octopus @warnerbrosent-blog

#hanna barbera #fanfic #snagglepuss #huckleberry hound #amtrak #great river #wisconsin dells #lovethedells #crazy claws #hannabarberaforever

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goodmorningnona · 5 months

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hello fellow girls with a train delay

#on this nye.. AND IT'S NOT EVEN BC OF WEATHER IT'S A FUCKING SERVER ERROR. GREAT GOING AMTRAK #id say american trains are a shitshow which isnt wrong but this is also some sprinter/intercity shit so #at least my train didnt arbitrarily disappear off the spoor #lessons of the hand and the mouth

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wugblogs · 8 months

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whenever I watch (relevant) anime I get extremely jealous of the shinkansen

#trains are great why don't we have trains :(#okay we do technically have them i've taken amtrak but you know what i mean

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