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Yeah you’re right that a cell phone provides a flashlight. I still carry a small high powered one. Logically I don’t need to anymore, but I do. Having said that, and in a similar vein, this trip last week, BRH-OSD, was the first time I didn’t print my ticket, but relied on my phone’s digital...

Well put! I wanted to end my post with that idea and made a couple of attempts to do so. But, when I reread what I’d written, it sounded sort of crude/lewd. You said it without conjuring a scary image in my mind!

I was just on the #3 (CHI-LAX) last week and was pleasantly surprised how cool, and for me very comfortable, it was throughout the the trip. There was one exception. We stopped on a siding just before Lamy, NM to transfer an engine to the #4 train that had been having trouble since leaving LA...

Just to be clear, the CONO came through my small town only once that I know of. I don’t have any knowledge of what route they have taken in all the other days. About the employees (crew) staying in a New Orleans’ hotel, I kind of doubt that would be the case. The CONO is a New Orleans based...

It was my understanding, as well, that 58 and 59 trains were going to and from NOL/JAN with their crews aboard. In fact, one came through my small town about a month ago or so on a totally different CN rail line It makes sense because I’m almost positive that Jackson’s Union Station is not set...

Barb, I hear you about the pain face. However, while I continued working for ten years refusing to accept that I needed to quit and file for disability, it was the public who got strained (but truly meant) smiles and the best service I could offer. It was,unfortunately, my family and friends...

“....... “Is it possible to call and get a different room? If there's more than one sleeper on the train, there may be a lower-numbered roomette in the other car(s) or even the same car due to cancellations. But be warned...modifying your reservation gets current-pricing, which may be either...

“Credo Quia Absurdum!” TiBike, thanks for increasing my vocabulary and adding to my “generally useless knowledge” database. (I tried not to, but I just had to look it up!) I’m always on the lookout for more tidbits of information that almost no one that I know will give two hoots about, but...

Maybe I’m missing something (and that would not be uncommon). But, Bedrooms, (which I’m speaking of) NOT Roomettes are, bucket per bucket, priced higher than the Family Bedrooms. I realize that because of Amtrak fare algorithms work that it could be possible that the FB could, on any given...

Just my opinion of course.... but it seems the Superliner bedroom (except bedroom A) is a bit larger than the Superliner Family Room. And second I have never found the Family Bedroom accommodation rate to be less than the Bedroom accommodation rate. Maybe Viewliners are a lot different.

I have a insulated foil zip-lock type bag that the SCA fills with ice for me each morning. I then put that in a small (6 pack size) soft sided cooler bag. (I use the foil bag to minimize the effects of melting ice on the other items in the cooler bag.)

Hi. I traveled in and out of the Osceola station fairly regularly between 2014 and February 2018. I left my truck there for 10 days or more several times. It is paved and well lit (part of a renovation project completed in sometime 2016, IIRC.) I never had any trouble, nor did I hear of anyone...

I believe you are talking about San Onofre Surf Beach, a state run beach and campground.

And IMHO, all the more reason a café car is essential.

Check out the the Pacific Surfliner schedule. San Clemente and Oceanside are an about an hour/hour and a quarter from LAX (LA Union Station). But both are very close to the beach, especially San Clemente. San Clemente has only three stops in the morning and two in the afternoon (approx. 4:14 and...

I disagree. Having traveled quite a lot on the Pacific Surfliner, I can attest that the café is very popular. Within minutes after most stops, a line quickly forms for the upscale sandwiches, craft beers, bottled waters, and other snacks. In the late afternoon or on get-away weekends the café...

There is also info on the Amtrak Alert Twitter page. I don’t subscribe to Twitter but access it by searching (googling) the words AMTRAK Alerts Twitter and then click on the link.

Posted this morning on Train Orders: “Disruption of the California Zephyr continues. 6(28) is running via UP's ex-C&NW. (departed Omaha 2 hr 36 min late after substantial extended dwell time) but according to a report last night, passengers were to be kicked off the train at Omaha and put on...

Happy to know that I’m not the only one that finds that irritating! What bothers me more than listening to the crying child, is the parent/caretaker who seems not to care if the child is disturbing others and continues talking/texting/playing on their electronic device or talking to someone...

Question: Does just having an open BofA AGR CC account retain the points OR must there be “qualifying activity”(from #2 of new policy) recorded on the credit card? Confused.