Recent content by KevinC

Oops. Yes, I meant to say the CONO Superliner Sightseer Lounge Car :(

Auto TrDvr, what you found is more like the menu in the CONO Viewliner snack car. The Express Menu looks exactly like a regular dining car menu, except it says Express Menu on the front, instead of City of New Orleans. You would think it would be available online somewhere, and with the numerous...

AlanB, First of all, thanks for the on-track-on-line website. You have done an excellent job with it. Yes, we boarded the CONO out of the Metropolitan Lounge. They told us when we checked into the lounge that sleeping car passengers would board around 7:30, so I assumed - after reading the...

Here is what I am talking about. Note that under MENUS there are menus listed for the City of New Orleans southbound and for the City of New Orleans northbound. New Orleans Info And perhaps this information found at http://on-track-on-l...modations.shtml is now out of date: Due to the late...

What happened to the Cross Country Cafe on the City of New Orleans? Rode in sleeper southbound on June 4, 2012 and got stuck with the express menu, no explanation or apologies given. Northbound one week later actually saw the City of New Orleans menu in the dining car for dinner, but back to the...

  Thanks for the great info, Pat. I will post a trip report when I return and will be doing periodic Twitter postings along the way (@kalewine). Feel free to tag along as I take my family on their very first Amtrak trip to my adopted hometown for the very first time! Sincerely, KC

Thanks Mr. the_traveler, that is exactly what I needed to know. Sincerely, KC

I've taken #58 and #59 from Chicago to New Orleans and back a couple of times, but always just kicked back in a coach seat, usually just eating breakfast in the dining car and snacking the remainder of the trip. Tomorrow, I take my family to New Orleans with me for the first time, but had to...

The family is going to New Orleans tomorrow via the Zephyr and City of New Orleans. We have coach tickets for the (relatively) short trip to Chicago on #6, then roomettes on #59 to New Orleans. The same in reverse on the return trip - roomettes on #58, then coach on #5. Will we still be able to...