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I know I know! I'm so sorry! I promise to write one up tomorrow. I've been recovering from my trip. I have a very rare autoimmune disease and the trip exhausted me, so I've been sleeping most of the days away, with the exception of visiting my family downstate for a birthday party. I promise...

Have a wonderful time! I rode on the SWC a few weeks ago. It was a trip of a lifetime! I loved almost every second of it!

Walker46 - did you notice if there were seats facing backwards? I was forced to sit in a backwards seat on my way to Chicago from GR and I ended up really liking it. I was worried about getting carsick, but I was fine.

Hahahahahah!! I was expecting my car to not be in the parking lot when I got back to the station. Thankfully, no flat tire and no missing car.

LOL Tom!! My kind of humor! :)

Yes. That was us. :) They took good care of us.

I am home safely. When we got to Chicago, they had everything arranged for us. There were five of us, so we were put into a van and driven. It went well. Our driver and my fellow passengers were wonderful. I promise to do a trip report and will link to it sometime this week. I'm pretty tired...

Brake check. Sheesh! I need to proof before hitting post.

I don't know if this counts, but on Sunday, March 1st in the evening, the brakes on my sleeper car failed. Smoke filled the car, but it wasn't awful. Our SCA opened the windows to get fresh air while the train was stopped east of Albuquerque so the engineers could do a break check. This was on...

Thank you all. We have new conductors that just boarded, so I'm sure I'll find out more.

Excuse my spelling. My phone won't let me correct. UNION station is what I meant to type. :)

Hello everyone! I'm on the SWC #4 and I was just told that my train is delayed by 4-5 hours. I need to transfer to the Pere Marquette at 4:55, but there's no way that's happening. The conductor told me to call customer service, but they both slammed the conductor for telling me to do that (I...

LOL! It's all good.

I was on #4 when they had us detain last night. It was a bomb threat. We detained in Garden CitY and we're back on the train in, I think, 3 or so hours? I kind of lost track of time because of the time change from mountain to central.

I was on the SWC when that freight train derailed in front of us. We were delayed about 8 hours or so.

Thanks again, Dry Creek. I'll sneak into the Grand Californian to check out the World of Color if I can. Thanks again for the tip! I leave the day after tomorrow. Oh my word, I am so excited! When I would have trips that required traveling by air, at this point before the trip I'd be...

I never thought of the trauma that engineers face when this type of incident happens until I came upon this board. I can't imagine seeing something like that. I'm sure it haunts the people involved forever.

Oh DryCreek - I absolutely will try to get on the LIlly Belle. How fun!!! Thanks for the tip and I'll look for that surprise you mentioned. Fun!!

Oh that's so sad. Juarez was nothing like that when I was there. It was heartbreaking, actually. That's where I learned two major things - don't make eye contact with panhandlers and don't take what you have for granted.

Thank you!! Well, I was there in the 90s, and it was awful. I had to have a man with me at all times whenever I was in Juarez. Of course, I broke that rule one day to go shopping at the market in downtown Juarez and a friend of mine and I were pulled over in Juarez. She was also a woman, but...