Welcome! I'm moving at the end of the month to Las Vegas, a city that doesn't see Amtrak service. Perhaps our shared pain will bring Amtrak back to our respective locations?
Got this in my email today. Not sure if it's targeted.
Amtrak Guest Rewards® members, here's a wintertime offer you can really warm up to. From January 7 - March 13, 2010, spend $50 on the Pacific Surfliner®, Capitol Corridor® and San Joaquin®, and earn 1,000 points. That's enough for a free...
Great pictures! I rode the Coast Starlight LAX-PDX last October as my first long distance train trip. This brought back very fond memories so thank you!
I was looking at a possible roundtrip from Altoona to Harrisburg for a trip I want to take in February and I saw the Pennsylvanian eastbound has a radically different schedule for Sunday and a few extra days. The train is numbered differently (44 insted of 42) and leaves Pittsburgh six hours...
If you can swing it, the Westin Copley Place is literally across the street from Back Bay Station. It's connected to a mall which has a lot of good restaruants, including a Legal Seafoods. Plus you can easily walk from there down Newbury Street which has a lot of nice places to eat.
The only...
Here's a brieft rundown of my trip on the Piedmont.
Sunday December 27
Amtrak 73 - Piedmont
Durham, NC (DNC) to Charlotte, NC (CLT)
This train is scheduled to leave at 7:22 so at the awful hour of 6:45 AM my Father and I prepared to leave home for the station. Unfortunately, it was 30...
What the above say about Business Class on these cars is correct. When I rode from Durham to Rocky Mount and back they even served the drink from a cart!
Also, make sure you take a good look at the new Durham train station...they did a really good job.
I spent a Thursday to a Saturday in Galveston last year (pre-hurricane) for work. Personally, I was not very impressed. I didn't find any restaurants that thrilled me and the beach was quite awful. I ended up leaving a day early and staying up in Houston instead.
Seems like we're seeing one of these stories a week. I feel awful for the 5 year old kid...his Mom was an idiot and he'll never have a chance to grow up not like her.