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Tomorrow morning by train (ICE) from Nijmegen to Düsseldorf, Germany and then from there to JFK. The real journey starts next Sunday on the Maple Leaf and will ultimately bring us to LA. At least as far as Amtrak is concerned. From LA we'll drive all the way back to Miami and fly back from there...

It's probably my use of the english language, but the last thing on my mind was discrediting Alan in any way. So if I offended anyone: my sincerest apologies! Ruud

10 miles Ruud

You have two options: 1. Take a cab from Depew to Buffalo Airport, about 3 miles. From the airport there's a shuttle bus going to Niagara Falls. Bus ticket is about $3. 2. Take the bus from Depew to downtown Buffalo and switch to bus #40 to Niagara Falls. Bus ticket about $2,50 Both buses...

Don't you think that if I had known about the existence of an "AGR area" I wouldn't have dropped the question there? Which brings me to something that has been bothering me for a some time: You're all so very helpful on this forum in showing us newbies the way around Amtrak and how to get...

I really can't believe that my sincere question about AGR-points was immediately moved from this forum. Makes me feel like some kind of intruder who doesn't abide the rules. Ruud

Seems a bit rude to me as I was asking a simple newbie question and hoping I could someone a favour. Why isn't there a special flat iron steak section to discuss the food on the LD trains?

Moved? Where and why?

Well, everybody is entitled to his/her own opinion, even if it's not a very sound one. Ruud

I know I'm entitled to a lot of AGR-points for our upcoming trip. I even used Alice's US address to collect them and she extensively tried to explain why I should collect them. But to be honest: I couldn't care less. At the same time - reading all The_Traveler's fanatic efforts to get extra...

Extra, extra sigh to paraphrase Gertrude Stein: "Steak is a stake is a steak is a stake" from the famous poem Baked Emily. Ruud

I strongly second that! It took me a couple of hours to figure out where The Traveler had been last week because of all those "podunk"(???) station abbrev's. Ruud

From what I've heard so far on this forum dinner service will be closed at ultimately 8.30 pm, but the dinner car stays open a lot longer. Ruud

That 25 mph crawl has been the one and only reason why we've booked our upcoming trip with Amtrak from New York City all the way to Los Angeles. Ruud

I knew it... :) Ruud

OK, here we go after lengthly considerations: 1. Downtown Train -- Tom Waits 2. Driver 8 -- R.E.M. 3. Ghost Train -- Counting Crows 4. Freight Train Blues -- Bawb Dylan 5. Last Train To Clarksville -- The Monkees And of course every song Johnny Cash recorded on the subject! I'm loading my...

There has been a long discussion on the subject on this forum when the detour was announced: http://discuss.amtraktrains.com/index.php?...=wyoming+detour IIRC both pros & cons were discussed there. Ruud

And thanks to lots of topics going way, way off topic I learned a lot more about Amtrak and especially its travelers than just the delays and the quality of meals onboard. So somehow it feels I'm pretty well prepared for my first acquaintance with all these imperfections in a little over a...

I've been wondering what to do also: we'll have to catch the 23.59 pm LSL to CHI out of Depew on Monday Sept. 21. As I see it we have two options coming from Niagara Falls that day: Taking the 6.30 pm Greyhound to Buffalo city center, find a nice restaurant and take a taxi to Depew later that...

No you're not ;)