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Does Charlottesville VA station have a place where I could leave my luggage for the day while I explored the area? I wanna come from New Orleans and then pickup the Cardinal back home.

Been thinking about riding the train across Canada.Do I need a passport? Any thing else I might need to do? Is my medical coverage good in Canada,do their hospitals accept it since I am not a Canadian?Seems like you don't think about these things till ya get a bit older:-)

I have my Amtrak trip planned out from Cincinnati Oh to Alexandria Va and then to Miami Fl my final destination..question. I wanna do a supervised tour by bus or just thought of this..cruise to Key West FL for two handicapped,can still walk but stairs and any distance is not gonna happen. I...

Mother in law just brought up a possible trip this winter for us,Cincinnati to Orlando but I know I would take the Cardinal east but where should we,and what train or trains should we take to get to Orlando..and back.An over nite stay along the way is fine as time is not important to catch the...

Has anyone traveled by one of those escorted rail services? I travel by my self a lot but I have been reading in a travel booklet put out by a well known travel agency that if in a group it might be more fun as you get to know the other travelers who most likely are train buffs. It is a bit...

Looking into a rail trip by a tour company...starts in Chicago..a western trip with the ride back thru Canada..I can get to Chicago easy by the Cardinal...after 10 days we end up in Toronto..from there,I am on my own,no longer with the tour, what would be the best way to get back to Chicago so I...

Thinking about a ride on the Southwest chief to LA and then it looks like Greyhound comes to the station.drives to Vegas and in Vegas ya go to the Greyhound station...times look good for me...anybody taken the bus to and from Vegas..never really rode a bus much...is the bus station any where...

Took the Cardinal from Cincinnati to Chicago on the 21st of january to hook up with the Chief to go to LA.Well a few miles east of Flagstaff(I have a scanner) an east bound freight sees alot of smoke coming from one of the cars,3rd,4th or 5th he didn't really know being at road speed.So we...

Well I ride the Cardinal from Cincinnati to Chicago and return about once a year(,I hook up with other trains to go west). Question is it seems like from Cincinnati to Indianapolis we boogie along just fine,slow down just now and again but after the lay over in Indinapolis seems like we put the...

Going to take the Zephyer to Sacramento CA for a couple of days and then hook up with the Coast Starlite to Portland..the Starlite is suppoed to be at Sacramento at 11:59pm and then the station is supposed to close..what if the Starlite is 4 hours late,is the station going to stay open till it...

Just got a letter from Amtrak today wanting my opinion of a small section of my recent trip with them,the Cardinal from Chicago to Cincinnati on 2/05/08. On the back is a questionaire with 21 questions,ranging from the cleanliness,smell of restrooms,friendlieness of staff...those type of...

Haven't posted in awhile but now I have a question. Got a young friend,34,never been on a train,doesn't have a clue as to what it is like to ride Amtrak.He wants to go west(,I am in Cincinnati)We will go to Chicago, by the Cardinal,I want to come back by the Zephyr,should I take him to LA on the...

I recently had a question about the little green lites on Amtrak cars and Rmadison came thru:-) Now I am watching a five tape set of a Cab Ride Thru The Great Southwest from the window of the Southwest Chief..........I was slow to like the adventure but then I really liked this set of...

On Amtrak cars I noticed there are little green lights(on the outside) on each one pointing straight to the next car. My question is what are they there for?

I was on the Zephyer last February(east bound). So much is written about the going thru the the Rockies and other mountain terain that the train travels thru but I thought the section south of Salt Lake City going thru the desert and complete and utter desolution...the way it was back when the...

Newbie to this board,I wanna go from Chicago to LA in the last week of january or the first two weeks of february on the Texas Eagle as a change from the South West Chief to see new rr track.The posts that I have read don't paint the most glowing picture of the Eagle yet I read others that are...