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I'm noticing this morning the 302 has four new bike racks in the cafe car. Booths were removed to make room. This is one of the cafes that lacked a restroom to begin with. Anyone know if this is going to be the standard?

After a bad experience trying the Carbondale shuttle bus, I'm looking to either board the CONL at Centralia or Effingham. What is parking like at either station? They appear largely equidistant to me. Any help is appreciated.. :)

Hi all, I've travelled Amtrak often and this is my first trip with a connector bus. My return tickets were lost or stolen and Amtrak won't give me new ones. Since a bus is involved, there are no e-tickets and they won't even provide for the train portions. Customer relations won't budge and...

I'm planning to backpack in the Yuma area and wonder if there are lockers, either at the station or nearby, that could be used to store luggage for a few days? Any help is appreciated.

Is it acceptable to earn more points per multiride trip by scheduling each leg as a separate trip, e.g. BLN-CHI and CHI-MKE as separately booked trips?

Does Amtrak have any stations one can reasonably hike and camp from? Not drive to a campsite, not find a site with electricity or any other modern services, but actually backpack from the station itself to a natural site within 5-10 miles at most? If so, it's an adventure waiting to happen.

I don't often get to ride the LD/Superliner trains, but the several I've ridden have some interesting (to me) features in disuse. One is a small metallic door, about six inches tall and two feet long, about halfway up the wall in the smaller dressing room, screwed shut. What was this? Another...

Say what you will about the financial benefits of full trains, but one thing is certain: they're unpleasant for introverts. We need our space. Sitting next to someone for hours, especially with loud conversations in the background, is quite draining.

I'm taking the CZ from CHI-SLC for the first time in mid-January. With Christmas freight traffic presumably slowing down, what are the chances it would arrive on time, both to SLC and back to CHI? Also, does the SLC station have lockers available that can be accessed throughout the day (both...

Today I was waiting to board in CHI and noticed an Amtrak video playing, warning us all about terrorists and giving the impression that it was far more dangerous to ride than it actually is. I don't see the point to this. Does Amtrak not see the potential of scaring naive passengers away, or of...

I keep reading local articles touting the short span of HSR from Dwight to Pontiac, IL with the rest of the CHI-STL (actually JOL-ALN) route coming soon. Just how soon? I rarely see construction taking place. Which is the next high speed segment and when is it scheduled for completion? (I know...

I'm considering a vacation somewhere within five hours of Chicago (not on the Lincoln Service) in a smallish town where we can walk to a hotel from the station and get whatever we need without driving, including a grocery store for healthier food than the average restaurant. Transit would work...

I'm planning a trip for a bike event in a few days; this would be my first time boarding with a bike. The website allowed me to reserve the bike from ALN-SPI with no problems, and it shows space for bikes on all four N/B Lincoln Service trains that day. However the return trip (same day) shows...

I notice LD trains tend to be the preference of train buffs on this board. Among the general public, however, do LD or the shorter (mostly state) routes tend to have more ridership? Being near St. Louis, we have mostly state routes nearby and most of the ridership goes there as opposed to the...

How did some routes come to have quiet cars and not others? Given a peaceful atmosphere, the train is a great place to read. I often travel the Lincoln Service. Staff often fail to enforce the "headphones only" rules and rude passengers blare music for all to hear. Some listen with headphones...