Recent content by Gp30sieb

I rode the Rocky Mountaineer Moab to Denver and return a few days later late August/early September. They are single level cars with big wrap around windows and no porches. They do however, unlike Amtrak on mostly the same route, allow for open Dutch doors (top only obviously) in the vestibule...

While on VIA Canadian I was in my bed with a full moon going through the canyons knowing I was missing a treat. That is why the next summer I chose the Rocky Mountaineer and saw the great sights I had missed the year before.

Unlike my trip west on #5 about 10 days ago, the windows on #6 that left Sacramento on the 9th are sparkling clean. I noticed that as it pulled into Reno. I also noticed that the lead engine was #203, Operation Lifesaver

I am on 6 and in the observation car someone had a Keurig machine to heat water for dehydrated food. He said he had called Amtrak and was told that it was OK

I can now get from Beacon, NY to JFK without having to go to Poughkeepsie or Croton to pick up Amtrak to go to Penn Station to get to the Airtrain in Jamaica.

Ya know, Amtrak uses "see America" as part of its advertising. That makes views out the window unimpeded by dirt speckles and grime "the basics".

With sun glare you see nothing. Without it you are looking through speckles and a general dinge. Totally detracts from the experience, which is, or used to be, a selling point for Amtrak.

I am on #5 in Denver Union having boarded yesterday at Chicago. The windows are filthy and the dining car is dumping it's water due to cold temperatures so we had pizza that was delivered to the train at Ottumwa and a cold cereal and yogurt breakfast. Amtrak's scenic train?

Thanks I had no idea at the time that I was shooting a one of a kind.

I answered my own question, or should I say Google Lens did. Budd Amfleet Inspection Car.

This is a westbound passenger train on Sand Patch grade in August 1991 cropped from a portrait orientation slide. I am assuming that it is the Capitol Limited as it was back then with dome cars. I am curious about the last car with the "bay window" in the back and the trapezoidal doodad on...

or the Holiday Inn/Ramada/whatever it is now in Cumberland.

If your trip leaves CHI on 1/30 I will be a neighbor in #7. This has been a useful thread. I am upstairs in a 31 car in both directions.

I am on the Silver Meteor from Fort Lauderdale go Penn Station. The description of the Thai Red Curry Street Noodles looks enticing. It is not!!!!!!!!!!!

I was unable to make a payment a few days ago via online account but was able to make a payment by phone.