Trip, Amtrak 2007 April ... Around 30-days ... Index overview

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Trip

1. Schedules, Trains April 2007

Sequence:

Wk

Day

Date

Weekday

From

To

Depart

Arrive

miles

Mileage

Train

Cmt

Vancouver > Jasper > Edmonton > Winnipeg > Toronto

Wk	Day	Date	Weekday	From	To	Depart	Arrive	miles	Mileage	Train
1	6	4-15	sun	VAN	Jasper				5593		5
1	7	4-16	mon	Jasper	Winnipeg			660	6253		6
2	8	4-17	tue	Winnipeg	Toronto			1420	6973		7
2	9	4-18	Wed	Toronto			20:00	2800	8393		8
		4-18/19									overnight in cold shower place

Toronto > Montreal > Quebec > Montreal > Gaspe > Montreal > Albany > Chicago>Washington

Wk	Day	Date	Weekday	From	To	Depart	Arrive	miles	Train
2	10	4-19	Thur	TWO	Mtr	06:55		334		9	#52 539km
2	11			MTR	Que	12:30		168	8895	9	#22 272km
2
2	11	4-19		Que	Mtr	17:35		168	9063	11	27
2	12	4-20	fri-sat	Mtr-GAS		18:15		649	9712	12
2	13	4-21	sat-su	Gas-Mtr			08:30	649	10361	13
2
2	13	4-22	SUN	MTR>SCHN		09:50	16:23	222	10583	13
2	13	4-22	Sun-mon	SchN>Chi		19:31	05:45	800	11383		Lakeshore Limited
2	14	4-23		Chi	Was			764	12147

Sequence: Chicago > Milwaukee > Cincinnati > Richmond > Miami > Washington

Wk	Day	Date	Weekday	From	To	Depart	Arrive	miles	Total	Train	Cmt
3	15	4-24	Tue	Was	Ric			109	12256
3	15	4-24	Tue	Ric	Mia	Tue-21:50	Wed-18:50	1055	13311	97 Silver Meteor
3	17	4-25	Thu	Mia	Alx	Thu-07:15	Fri-08:30	1236	14547	98 Silver Meteor
3	18pc	4-27	Fri	Alx	CHI	Fri-08:30	Sat-10:20	1038	15585	51 Cardinal	cinci@
3	19	4-28	Sat	Chi	Denver	Sat 13:50	Sun 07:30	1038	16623	5 Calif. Zephyr
	20			Denver	Reno	Sun:08:00	Mon 09:14	984	17787
	20			Reno	S.F.	Sat 07:35	Mon 16:40	236	18023
3	21	4-30	Mon	S.F.	Port	Mon 20:12	Tue 16:40	731	18753
4	22-24	5-1	Tue	Port	Chi	Tue 16:40	Thr 15:55	2206	20959

Sequence:Option One

Wk

Day

Date

Weekday

From

To

Depart

Arrive

miles

Mileage

Train

Cmt

Chi

Det

Thr: 18:00

24:00

281

281

Det

Fri:07:25

12:00

281

+562

562

???

Fri

Fri

Chi

FTW

Sat 14:00

? Sun:12:00

991

991

1553

Tx chief

Sat

Sat

FtW

SAS

? 14:40

? 10:35

284

1273

tx chief

Su

Su

SAS

NOL

01:00

Sun16:00

572

1845

Sunset

x

Mon

NOL

WAS

07:20A

Tue10:10

1152

2997

Mo

Tue

+?

Tue

Was

Tue:16:05

Wed 08:40

764

764

Wed

Chi

Poplar

Wed 14:00

Wed 12:00

453

1217

Wed

Poplar

Wed 12:00

Thu 14:00

538

1755

Sequence:

Wk	Day	Date	Weekday	From	To	Depart	Arrive	miles	Mileage	Train	Cmt
			Thr	CHI	Det
			Fri	TOR	BUF

Det > Tor > Niagra > Tor > Det > Chi

Sequence: Washington > Chicago > Denver > S.F > Seattle > MPLS>Seattle

Wk	Day	Date	Weekday	From	Depart	To	Arrive	miles	Mileage	Train	Cmt
			Thr	Chi	Thr:19:05	Was	Fri:13:30	764	764
				Was	Fri:	Phil
				Phil	Fri:15:55	NOL	Sat:19:23	1286	2050
				NOL	MWF: 11:55	SAS	Tue:03:00	572	2622
				SAS	Tue 07:00	CHI	Wed:14:14	1306	3928

3	14	4-23	Mon	Chi>Det	08:30	15:15	281	11664	14	Niles/SoBend ... Trailways
3	14	4-23	Mon	Windsor>TOR	17:30	21:26	222	11886	14
3	15-18	24-27	Tue-Fri	TOR>VAN	09:00	07:30	2768-32	14622	15-18

Wk	Day	Milepost	Date	Weekday	From	To	Depart	Arrive	miles	Train
3-	18	14779	27	Fri	VAN>SEA	Sea			157
					Sea	Port
3	18-20	16568	27-29	Fri-Sat-Sun	SEA/Port	MIL	16:45		1789
4	20-22	18357	29-01	SunMon-Tue	MIL	Port			1789
4	23-24	19275	01-02	Tue-Wed	SEA>SF				918
	24-26	21713	02-04	Wed-Fri	SF>CHI				2438
	26-27	22735			Chi>FtW				1022
	27-28	23757			FtW>Chi				1022
	28-29	24521			Chi>Was				764
	29-30

1. 070410 My wife hassles me about flossing my teeth more often, afterall she is a dental hygienist. So, a new trip commitment, flossing after every meal. No good deed goes unpunished, for upon opening my dental floss plucked from the bathroom vanity I found the floss had vanished. More bucks for
2. 070411 Wesley, jerk cafe car attendant:
   1. Shows up at 7:10
   2. Opens Doors, counts money
   3. Starts reading book even though
      1. Tables and floors are dirty, grimy and littered.
3. 070412 Cavanaugh,  .... lost lounge car ...
4. 070413 working ... discovered unisex mini-lounge for working
5. 070414 Like ban on stinking smoking, should ban changing baby diapers in coaches when changing tables are in bathrooms. Throw off train any mother who puts stinking diapers in trash bin of coach compartment. Parents who think their kids doodoo don't (stink/do??) are clearly parents who are live a lifestyle comfortable with open-air baby fecal boli.
   1. Need kids car where parents can enjoy kids feeding on each others' hyperactivity.
6. 070415 Canadian border: Guards must be rejects from Amtrak.
7. 070417 Service Manager on Winnipeg-Toronto told me that I could not discuss Global Warming after showing resume and Threads of time.
8. 070418 Old man left at Capreol.
9. 070420 Young girl in train station when asked about watching computer while I went to restroom, "I don't want that responsibility." How much responsibility is there in watching a computer? I didn't know that watching a computer was so much responsibility. Follow up question was, "Are you a visitor from or were you born in the states?" (Did not want to ask if she was a spoiled, irresponsible brat.)
10. 070422 Lake Shore Limited, Robert Taylor, car attendant, wasn't helping load passengers. Other attendant was asking during boarding where he was. I found him sitting talking with a girl in a coach car. In the middle of the night, I woke up to noice in the coach car whereupon I found him talking to several girls. They could have moved to the lounge car to talk which he said was not necessary after which he continued to "talk" to the girls. A tall man with deep lungs, his talk was not soft and low.
11. 070423-4 Woman talking at 1am on phone about people keeping her awake at home by talking in the next room. At 9:30am the next morning, this midnight talker was still sleeping.
12. 070424 Late to DC by 4 hours on Capital Unlimited, missed connection to Richmond, VA.
13. 070526: Train late in leaving, 9:15 instead of 7:15 ... changed to 10:15 ... changed to another train.
14. 070526: Magician on train entertained passerbys with tricks, some of which were making things disappear. Sadly, when she finished her exposition, she left, leaving her undisappeared trash on the table.
15. 070527: Train on time into Alexandria: 11:09 ... Cardinal #51 comes in on time at 11:29 ... #98, my original train was supposed to come in after the #51 departed--what a good guess. If I had taken the #98 I would have missed the Cardinal. Originally was going to pick up in Philly ... lost mileage.
16. 070527: Clifton forge, stepped off train, realized not a stop ... conductor, heavy-set man with grisly beard gave me grief. If he had done his job, I would not have stepped off the train. When I told him I had not known, he basically called me liar.
17. 070528:
    1. "I just want to make money." says a lady. "Amy just wants to argue." ... "I don't have time to do that."
    2. California Zephyr: Cafe car opened an hour after left station. Person had trash box in landing. Visited at 7:30, person was playing on computer. Bathrooms blocked by trash boxes--picture. ... bathroom used as storage area. Attendant sitting playing computer games
18. TTD:
    1. Primary: refs ... topics ... Newtime ... Timism.net ... signup/BB Issues/lifehours/record work
    2. Call Rick/Caroline ... NYT letter ... Geek Letter ... ? ... timism ... oildrought

Problem of rail media causing noice in the coach cars, thanks Mr. CEO.

Card options:

1. [?] Widing the wells weminds me of my severe childhood speech impediment when, like "R"-lisping Elmer Fudd, I said the little wed wabbit went wunning acwoss the wellwoad twack. Early on I learned to say woman's pocketbook instead of woman's purse.
2. [NewOrleans] 'Riding on the City of New Orleans. Illinois Central Railroad #9" is as far as I got before being threatened with ejection if I kept singing.
3. [SF] "When I first saw you, I thought you would be a problem," said the conductor. "But after watching you for five minutes, I realized you were eccentric as hell!"
4. [save till after CJ Qc's return] Am tracking time when Amtraking? Wanting to be more than an absentee husband with bad jokes, I decided to be Cathy's alarm clock by calling at 4:59am, a minute earlier than her ding-ding:  "Bob, thx, but it's Sunday morning."
5. Before Jet Blues was rail road blues. Where's Mussolini when we need him.
6. [? Dog] Heard too often: You know what I mean? No, failure on your part to get an education does not constitute a responsibility on my part to think for you.
7. [EOL]

Captions Used:

1. 070525: Miami: Sunrise, Sunset, South Beach is hard to beat. Never forget the first time I saw a deformed person lying on the beach--"Bob, not polite to stare" I said as I quickly averted my eyes. At the 3rd deformity I realized that it was a topless beach of ladies lying on their backs.
2. 070427 My highly functional geek vest and bush hat often prompts, "Hey, Crocodile Dundee" to which I respond, "No, crack a joke yankee."
3. 070428 Most Amtrak trains are late which is a variation of Chicagoans who vote early and vote often. For Amtrak, be late early and be late often.
   Chicago: Vote Early and Vote Often
   Amtrak: Be Late Early and Be Late Often
4. 07429 Ride a rocking passenger train to walk like a drunken sailer and write like a dentist. Once again, why is the Brooklyn Bridge always for sale? Brooklyn dentist make cheap bridges.

Intoning the voting hallmarks of old Tammany Hall and Windy City Chicago reveal remarkable similarities to Amtrak's train times:

1. "Vote early and vote often" is be late early and be late often.
2. "It is ok to vote often and it is ok to vote if you are dead, but don't vote often if you are dead." For Amtrak, "It is ok to be late often but you can't be late if you are not departed." The latter happens when a train is cancelled thus allowing Amtrak to claim the train was not late at its destination. It's like ballyhooing going to Mars when NASA can't get a shuttle launched. Amtrak
3. At the end of the voting day, stuff the ballot box which is what Amtrak does with its Enron bookcooking of the time schedules by stuffing extra time at the end of the line is like stuffing the ballot box at the end of the voting day.

stuffing box

Where's mussolini when we need him.

The problem is not that Amtrak is late more than once nor that Amtrak is later than a dead person missing his own funeral.

Sleeping on a train is like wintering in Minneapolis. When you are doing it, you don't mind. However, you don't miss it when you are not doing it. Just the opposite of intimacy.

Sleeping on the train for some people is an opportunity to complain. Do they really find sleeping on a train that bad? If one watches the sleep ??, one notes that they complain about things off of the train as well. Is the train or the attitude? Some people derive a sense of superiority by belittling anything and anyone. They would complain about accomodation in Heaven to Jesus. They are the unfortunate hypochondriacs of behavior who find discomfort at each step on life's journey. They self-importune their mulitiple injuries and injustices as if a soldier wounded in service to one's country. It's both amusing and tragic to watch them pontificate on rail travel as if a holy roller.

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