Search results

I did a a Google search and found that a company called Roadrunner provides a shuttle service from Lamy to Santa Fe. ADVANCE RESERVATIONS REQUIRED https://roadrunnershuttleandcharter.com/

My wife and I will have a couple hours layover between trains 1 and 14 next Friday morning. We plan on walking over and have some breakfast at nearby Philippe's if the SL isn't too late getting into Union Station. I'll report on conditions afterwards when I have a chance!

Mid-week. Tuesday going to Vancouver and Wednesday returning.

Great info, thank you all. We have our business class tickets already, so we are glad to hear that will work to our advantage. @ehbowen -- are there business class seats that we would want to avoid, or are they all pretty decent?

Next month my wife and I are taking 516 to VAC from SEA. It leaves at 7:45 am. 517 on the trip back leaves at 6:35 am. How early do we need to be at the station before departure? Do we need to be there an hour ahead of time? Will 30 minutes early suffice? I'd like to benefit from anyone's...

Another fun spot for lunch is Fritz's Railroad Restaurant, inside Crown Center, where burgers, shakes and fries are delivered to your table by a model train. It's decent food, and entertaining, too.

The top of your list should include a trip to a fantastic museum dedicated to the steamboat Arabia, which was dug up from a farmer's field, along with all of its contents. Check it out at http://1856.com/ It's in downtown KCMO.

My pleasure. Have you left your car there in summer time? When we leave on our trip in the last couple of weeks in June, could I expect to find all the parking spaces completely filled? It wouldn't be easy to figure out a parking alternative when the train is scheduled to depart within the hour.

Is it the overpass construction you are referring to that started early last year?  http://www.maricopa-az.gov/web/overpass-tracker  The link above has some info on the project. From the plan of the site, it doesn't look like the project will affect the station's layout at all. Apparently...

Good to know you haven't had any problems in the past - I hope someone chimes in with parking space availability info.

I'd like to know as well. I'll be taking the SL in late June from MRC on a nine day trip. I don't know whether I'd want to leave my car there for that long. The area looks kind of sketchy when you look at it on Google Street View. Anyone have any problems parking there?

It might be something the creator of this video might want to tackle. I've looked at some of the other "visualizations" on his blog at http://willgeary.github.io/data/. It looks like much of what he does is transportation-related. Is the 1952 Official Guide available in a digitzed format? If...

It's embedded from Vimeo on that web page. Perhaps you'd have better luck watching the video directly on Vimeo's site: https://player.vimeo.com/video/227781470?app_id=122963 https://vimeo.com/227781470

I've never seen anything like this before. Not sure if it is useful in any way, but it is still kind of cool to watch: http://willgeary.github.io/data/2017/07/30/One-Week-Amtrak.html

I knew there had to be a reason. Makes perfect sense!

Very good point. The CS is still about 70% of the distance of SL, but has a connection window that is less than 25% the size of the opposite direction, yet still has a similar connection rate. That was what surprised me.

Thanks for the link to the juckins.net tool. I used it to check our outgoing connection between 1 SL and 14 CS, and it shows a slightly worse chance of making the connection for what is supposed to be a layover of more than four hours - SL's scheduled arrival is 5:35AM and CS's departure is not...

I'd hope not to get stuck in LA traffic if that were the case, and miss the connection to № 2, LOL! Actually our inspiration to try this - our first LD train trip - is because a huge percentage of our last (auto) road trip to the Los Angeles area was spent sitting in those long ribbon-like...

Thank you to both of you, 1@FrensicPic[/USER] and 1@Thirdrail7[/USER]. This forum is a wealth of information and knowledge!  :D

Where do I find recent on-time performance data for the CS and SL? On our return trip from Seattle to Arizona on 11 CS we have a connection to 2 SL departing Los Angeles at 10 PM after a 9PM arrival on 11 CS. It is listed as our connection on the ticket, but it seems like it could be a close...