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A few days ago I returned from my first cross country Amtrak LD trip. This was a bucket list item for me and was something that I had hoped to do for many years before finally making it a reality. Nearly 5800 rail miles plus a few hundred bus connection miles( thanks to Amtrak abandoning service...

Just read a story on train orders.com stating that rail car oil shipments in U.S. have jumped from 9500 in 2008 to over 415,000 last year. I am not saying that this is the entire cause for many rail delays but it is certainly a huge factor. On that same site today, there are photos of the LSL...

For all you rail fans who are also movie buffs, TCM will have a rare showing of the original movie "Silver Streak" from 1934. It has no connection at all to the more well known 1976 version with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. It was a B movie made with Burlington's Pioneer Zephyr posing as the...

With all the ongoing delay on the LSL both eastbound and westbound to and from CHI I thought it would be nice to visit a chapter from the glory years of rail travel on the LSL's predecessor, the original 20th Century Limited.In June 1956 this was truly a "limited" train. It originated from NY...

Considering the ongoing problems with late arriving East Coast trains in Chicago there appears to be a decent chance of those pax missing connections to LD West Coast trains. So my question is this: if a pax is a no-show on say the 3/SWC due to a missed connection caused by late arriving East...

For the last 6 weeks or so I had been trying to snag sleeper accommodations on the 51/Cardinal without any luck. With a consist that usually includes only a single Viewliner sleeper car and thrice weekly schedule added to its lengthy trip duration of 27+ hours from NYP-CHI it is not surprising...

As part of a cross-country rail trip in late October to Tucson,AZ my first segment will be from NYP-CHI. Having busted my budget on sleeper accommodations for the longer distance parts of this trip,the NYP-CHI segment has to be done in coach. Keeping in mind that sunset in late October would be...

Just when it appeared that the extreme delays that had been affecting 29/CL had started to ease up for the last week or so( average delay for last 6 days about 125 minutes) this train arrived in CHI on 9/6 424 minutes late! Due in at 8:45 A.M. 29/CL did not arrive until 3:49 P.M. A late arrival...

Just booked a roomette on 1/SL and was assigned roomette 18 in car 0131. After having consulted Superliner car diagrams and consist listings for the SL it appears that this reservation will be in the transdorm sleeper. Some previous posts had mentioned that the transdorm sleeper cars have the...

Haven't been able to find anything on Amtrak website regarding boarding procedures. Is there any type of priority or early boarding process for seniors in NYP? I have traveled from NYP to WAS often in years past before I qualified as a "senior" passenger and can't recall if there was any type of...

I will be riding on 59/CONO in late October and after reading the timetable for that route I discovered what appears to be an example of "padding" built into the schedule for that train.The penultimate station for this route is Hammond,LA at milepost 881. NOL is next and last station at milepost...

I read a tip from another rail fan site that states if you are riding in coach on a Superliner make sure to get a seat on the side of the car where the stairs are located. This tip claims that seats on that side have 2" more leg room. After having carefully checked out the diagram layouts for...

I have read several postings from other forum sites complaining about untidy,smelly and even unsanitary conditions on Amfleet II coaches on LD trains (especially Cardinal and Crescent which have durations ranging from 28-32 hours).However, very few complaints about these same conditions on...