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U.S., California’s Coast Daylight: ‘The World’s Most Beautiful Train’ had a triple-unit dining, coffee shop and kitchen car, plus tavern on a daytime luxury coach train

September 17, 2022 Administrator

Editor’s Note: This article last appeared on this website on December 27, 2021. It has been updated and photos and…

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Posted in: Amtrak, History, Intercity Passenger Train, Passenger Amenities and Food Service, Passenger Train Operators, Passenger Trains Filed under: Amtrak, Articulated cars, California, Coast Daylight, Coast Starlight, Golden State, History, Intercity, Menu Select, menus, Most Beautiful Train in the World, Overland Route, parlor cars, Passenger Amenities and Food Service, Passenger Train Stations, Passenger Trains, Rail Passenger, San Joaquin Daylight, Southern Pacific Railroad, Sunset Limited, Transportation, Travel, Triple Unit Diner

‘I’m not going to keep quiet’ Houston neighborhood reckons with railroad yard after decades of contamination

April 10, 2019 Administrator

By Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle; April 10, 2019 Lavender Street, tucked on the south side of Kashmere Gardens, has fewer…

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Posted in: Freight Railroads Filed under: Cancer, Creosote, Freight Railroads, Groundwater, Houdyon, Infrastructure, Kashmere Gardens, Nearby Residents Ill and Dying, Northeast Houston, Now Closed, Rail Safety, Rail Yard, Southern Pacific Railroad, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Tie Manfuacturing Facility, Transportation, Union Pacific, UP

San Antonio, Texas: SunsetStation has been a transportation hub for more than a century

January 30, 2018 Administrator

From San Antonio Express News; January 29, 2018 A century-old train station east of downtown was renovated during the late…

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Posted in: Passenger Train Stations Filed under: Amtrak, Entertainment and Retail Complex, Freight Railroads, National Register of Historic Places, Passenger Train Stations, Passenger Trains, Renovated During the Late 1990s, San Antonio, Southern Pacific Depot, Southern Pacific Railroad, St. Paul Square, Sunset Depot, Sunset Limited, SunsetStation, SunsetStation Opened January 29 1999, Texas, Transportation, VIA Metropolitan Transit

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