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I'm getting on the southbound Texas Eagle at 7:55 PM in St. Louis - can I expect dinner or should I get it in town before the train? I realize this isn't particularly late, but gather the time kitchen operations close down depends on the train and how heavily it is booked, so that may not be...

Given the consist that Rasputin reported: The consist west of Albany is: Locomotives Boston sleeper Cafe car Boston coaches New York coaches Dining Car (a/k/a picnic table car) New York sleepers Baggage car I'm wondering if it's actually possible to sleep with the horn blaring all night, even...

I saw a post somewhere by a guy who lived in Springfield, MA, suggesting that it was better to be in coach to Albany and get on a NY sleeper there, because when the NY section joins the diner is at the far end of the train from the Boston sleeper, which he also said was right behind the engine...

The timing of this trip was somewhat inadvertent, as the ferry schedule only went through September 3 and I didn't realize they considered the next two weeks of September as not part of the Summer. Based on tour reports and other comments I've seen, most folks seem to do this loop clockwise...

Pretty much all of the maps I've found on the web show the Gaspe line, so I know they're not current - that could be the only change, but I have no way of knowing. I don't care for the spindly one on the VIA site as it's more of a diagrammatic type, with straight lines connecting all major...

I realize this may not be the best forum for this, but then don't see a more appropriate one either. Given that our "dear leader" and the Amtrak czar both seem intent on destroying the LD system, I'm thinking I should do a trip while I still can. I've just started looking into this last night...

The Amtrak dome car discussion caused me ask if the Superliner platform could be lowered sufficiently to build new dome cars for east coast service - there may also be length and width issues. This made me wonder just how much clearance difference there was between east and west. While trying...

As I was reading the Buffalo station thread, I found myself wanting to look at the rail routes being discussed on a map of the city. However, I find Google Maps almost totally useless for this, as they depict rail lines in a very thin faint gray line - which I find very difficult to detect -...

Note: Some 20 hours ago I posted Possible NYC - Rutland (Ethan Allen) - WRJ (Vermonter) multimodal loop and just saw that WRJ has no entry here, so thought I'd make a start. This is based on the idea of taking a bus between WRJ and Rutland - or vice-versa, to give a year-round Vermont loop...

Note: This started as a response to a message from Mystic River Dragon in my Five Days . . . Trip Report, but I began to realize that it was perhaps more appropriate for this forum - and then discovered there was surprisingly no entry for Albany. Some thirty years ago I proposed a weekend...

Given that the Port Kent ferry only runs some three months of the year, I started considering other possibilities for connecting the Adirondack and Vermonter in other seasons. After my recent trip, I have no enthusiasm for continuing to Montreal. I kept returning to my NENE Amtrak route map...

Links not working as expected - will research and try again. N.B. - I discovered I couldn't delete the entire post once I was in Preview, so took all the original text out and substituted this. Ditto for the following post.

I'm considering a trip using the LSL Boston section, the Vermonter and the Adirondack for some time later this year. I'd like to do it counter-clockwise, having just ridden on the Adirondack northbound. Checking the schedules I found something that really astounds me and thought it would be...

I took the train from Montreal to Toronto on Tuesday and just before starting there was a really loud roar and extreme vibration from the floor. This settled somewhat during the trip, but never seemed to stop completely. The train was loco hauled, so I don't understand this, although I was in...

Looking for info for how to get from Burlington to the Essex Junction station (putative Burlington stop) some 10 miles away, I found this: https://subwaynut.com/amtrak/essex_junction/index.php

I just had a thought - do hub and spoke trips to get maximum daylight riding. Chicago is the obvious choice, with mostly sunlight on the outbound trip to the next major city (on the routes west and south) - stay overnight and have good meals, and 3 of 4 have full daylight on the return run...

An interesting vacation for New Yorkers (NYC) using the two most scenic routes in the NE. This could also be used by those to the south - but they would a need a connection to the Adirondack. Take the Adirondack to Montreal and spend as many days there as you care to. I recommend taking VIA...