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This was a great trip report that brough back a lot of memories for me, MARC Rider. I attended the General George A. McCall school from September 1977 to June 1980 (5th through 7th grade). I lived at, what was then, the Gaskill Mews Apartments on 5th & Lombard from August 1977 to October 1985...

Or one can do what v v did and sail across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2.

Oh, this is bad. I'm supposed to visit Iceland on my honeymoon in May. I booked a return flight on WOW Air between Reykjavik and Baltimore.:(

Are you referring to official travel (TAD/TDY) or personal travel?

I agree with you, Manny T. Based on the Capitol Limited trip I took on November 13, 2018 (westbound) and November 15, 2018 (eastbound), there were no cheesecakes for dessert in any of the dinner box selections. Instead the dessert that was offered in the entrée boxes was the Toffee Crunch...

Thanks for sharing, MARC Rider! Your post brings back a lot of old memories. I used to ride the BSL to High School, from Lombard-South to Olney TC. The "new" cars entered service during this time - in 1982. I'm surprised those old B1 cars haven't been scrapped by now! A PCC-equipped trolley...

v v, Are you still planning on taking the Copper Canyon Railway?

v v, I eagerly await your travelogue. I just booked an eastbound cruise on the QM2 for my honeymoon in April. It will be the first time outside of North America for me and my future wife. Once in the UK, we'll be riding trains around Europe!

Now that I think about it, the train I was on departed Charlottesville on Sunday so would have departed Indianapolis on Monday morning. Makes sense.

When I rode the Cardinal westbound from Charlottesville to Chicago last December, the consist of Horizon cars and locomotive that comprise the Hoosier State was coupled to the Cardinal's P42 locomotive in Indianapolis for the last leg of our trip from Indianapolis to Chicago. Departing...

There is one such station I can think of right off the bat that fits this criteria - the Ocean City Transportation Center in New Jersey. It was a functioning train station until 1981 and has served NJ Transit local and commuter buses since. Nowadays it is nowhere near a railroad. I actually rode...

Actually the "River Cities" coach ran from St. Louis to Centralia, IL, where it was combined with the City of New Orleans headed south. I rode the River Cities in March 1986.

I rode the newly Superliner-equipped San Francisco Zephyr and Southwest Limited in March 1981 and, yes, I do remember the piano on the lower level of the SSL!

N&W also hosted a portion of the former Illini route between Champaign-Urbana, IL and Decatur, IL until the early 1980's.

If v v and his wife are going to take the ferry across the Gulf of California from La Paz to Topolobampo, they can then ride the El Chepe train across the Copper Canyon route to Chihuahua. From there, they can take a bus to El Paso, TX, then on to Amtrak's Sunset Limited/Texas Eagle (# 422)...

I rode the Cardinal westbound between Charlottesville and Chicago on my way home for Christmas last year. I left Charlottesville on time on December 17 and was only 17 minutes late arriving in Chicago so we mostly kept to schedule. If on time, the westbound Cardinal will spend about 3 hours in...

And Pacific Surfliners that run through Santa Barbara to suburban Goleta.

A hypothetical compromise could be to run the Southwest Chief on the current route between Holliday Jct., KS and Dailies Jct., NM via La Junta, CO and Albuquerque, NM 4 days/week (e.g. Su, Mo, We, Fr) and over the Transcon between Holliday Jct., KS and Dailies Jct., NM via Amarillo, TX and...

The Coast Starlight doesn't go to San Diego. This train only travels north of Los Angeles. If you're looking to take your troop from Los Angeles to another nearby city in southern California, consider taking them on the Pacific Surfliner instead. There are multiple daily departures to...

I had Wi-Fi in my sleeper room on board the Southwest Chief between Chicago and Los Angeles earlier this week. The car had a mobile Wi-Fi router tied to a cellular network so the quality and availability of the Wi-Fi service varied considerably depending on where we were. If we were passing...