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I'm currently on empire builder number 7. Was just told that they do not serve dessert with lunch. It's been three or four years since I've ridden the train but is this a new phenomenon?

In the past two weeks I've seen a plethora of Amtrak commercials running in the north Florida Panhandle Market. Notably I've seen them on multiple channels in Panama City and near Tallahassee by two different cable providers. Is this just a fluke? I don't really know how cable providers do their...

Just learned that Governor Rick Scott is refusing the high speed rail $$ for Florida. http://www.kgmi.com/pages/9214426.php?contentType=4&contentId=7674012

I was on train#49 the LATE Shore Limited on sunday night when it was 8 hours late arriving in Chicago. I had booked a round-the country trip (Jax - NYP - CHI - LAX - SEA - Chi - Was - Jax). The train was scheduled to arrive in chicago at 9:30am but didn't get there until 5pm. Needless to...

There seems to always be a plethora of train/vehicle crossing accidents. I read somewhere that each wheel of a train has the total contact surface area with the rail of about the size of a dime. So if you have a 60 axle train, that means 120 wheels which equals 120 dimes. The area covered by...

Driving home yesterday, I was remembering back growing up in a small town in Florida what business was like on U.S. Highway 90 for my father's general store. This was before Interstate 10 was opened. I remember vividly that business was booming and it would take several minutes to be able to...

Interesting turn of events happening here in Florida... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1440996.html

Does anyone know if there is long term parking at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal? I will be departing NOLA on the CONO wednesday and will need to leave my car for 6 days.

I am attempting to go from New Orleans (would prefer to travel from Tallahassee, but that's another story) to Los Angeles on May 11th of this year and there are NO roomettes available. I can't believe the demand is that high this far in advance. The policy makers and operators of Amtrak need...

Has anyone seen the emails from guest rewards snowflakes? pretty cool!! http://snowflake.amtrakguestrewards.com/

Just returned from a round-country first class trip on Amtrak. Began in Jax on the Silver Star to D. C. where I changed to the Cardinal over to Chicago. Changed there to the Empire Builder to Seattle. Spent 2 nights in Seattle before taking the Coast Starlight down to LA. Spent one night in...