The GARP is keeping their members up-to-date on the Sunset Limited situation, among other things - thought you might like to read it. This is their latest...
Corinne Brown let Kummant a little off the hook when she suggested a seperate train with a better schedule. If it is not a non-overnight connection in...
Well y'all if there's anything of importance I need to know - you'd better do it pretty quickly - the old computer is "fixin" to be "hospitalized" AGAIN!! The...
After getting Senator Hutchison's weekly news & noting the lack of mention of National Train Day, I was inspired to write an e-mail to the Senator, at her web...
Good one HOward, we'll if, and how, she responds, or a staffer responds for her. Jerry ... From: Howard Bingham To: TXARP@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, May...
I am on a quick tourist trip to DC and noticed big as life a huge banner for the Sunset Limited not a couple hundred feet from Amtrak HQ saying Sunset Limited...
Nahhh, just a figment of somebody's imagination - don't we wish it was true. Jerry Sullivan ... From: thomas reiser To: smart_rail Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008...
Take a picture - I'd at least like to see what it looks like!! I've said it at least a thousand (?) times since we began this journey - hope springs eternal!! ...
Just sent this off. Congress.org is a great tool to get in touch with your state and U.S. legislators. I use it all the time! Barbara ... one ... travel...
Letters sent today to Florida Senators Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson. If you write or fax, it might be worth noting somewhere in the letter or after your...
This is from Yahoo News Evidently this occurred before arrival in downtown San Antonio where Texas Eagle through cars to California are switched to the Sunset...
Yes, well early on there was some concern that we should not appear as an organized effort, but as individuals in the grassroots, so John Sita, David Johnson,...
Having gotten approval from federal transit authorities, Lake Charles is undertaking a project to turn the Amtrak station on Railroad Avenue into a temporary...
This is similar to an idea that the Beaumont, TX. City Manager office is working on.. Beaumont, TX City Manager is trying to negotiate with the KCS to build an...
... I tend to favor refurbishing historic, architecturally significant railroad structures - if that's a possibility - rather than aiming for new locations...
Would someone kindly give me the gist of TWAA - since I pretty much lost the thread about 2 paragraphs down. Too much info for someone who isn't very familiar...
See attached message below. Amtrak's Great American Stations website is something we need to keep in mind when we look for ways to improve stations along the...
Pretty simple really. My good friend Bruce is a "word smith" and often loses me until I read it a few times, but the gist of it is this. Back around 1999, Doc...
http://www.wwltv.com/video/index.html?nvid=242262&shu=1 Bill Capo, bcapo@... , investigative reporter at WWl TV New Orleans reports "Amtraks's Booming...
Would like to know what all you lucky people who actually have Amtrak service are doing for Nat'l Train Day. I know Jerry and George are going to be quite...
Part of the problem lies in the fact that today's generation has little or no experience with trains and so if it does not have rubber tires and/or wings, it...
Except that the map on that website doesn't even show the existence of the Sunset Limited route. http://www.greatamericanstations.org/station_finder Steven ......
Well Steven - even though they don't show on the existing map WE know they're there - and when the Sunset is reinstated there will definitely have to be...
AMEN..! A TXARP member in Houston when Hurricane Rita was bearing down on the Gulf Coast, got two trains for evacuating stranded Greyhound passengers, as well...
... -- While the Houston Amtrak station is normally closed on Saturday, the UP & Amtrak will have displays set up at the Houston Amtrak & the UP is reported to...
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