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Thanks, it's been a few years since I rode both Trains,and they weren't stopping in Richmond then. However I have used BART and the Capitol Corridor Trains to travel between Sacramento and San Francisco many times!

IINM the Zephyr and Starlight don't stop in Richmond, only the Capitol Corroidor Trains! Maybe Amtrak will do "One Off " stops in Richmond to allow connections to/from San Francisco with the Bay Bridge shutdown Sunday???

When they remodeled the Lounge the nice Cabinets where you could store your stuff vanished,!🤬

Thanks, corrected in original!

According to a Post on trainorders,due to a Marathon across the Bay Bridge on Sunday, 5/19 the Amtrak Thruway Buses between Emeryville and San Francisco will not be running. Suggested Alternate Transportation is to use BART between Richmond and the City or between Oakland and the City...

Seconded! Philippe has great reasonable Breakfasts and Good Coffee that's cheap!( there is a Starbucks in Union Station but the 2 places mentioned for Breakfast are much better!)

Ft Worth does restock the Cafe for the Heartland Flyer,( Daily to/from OKC)but there is no Commisary per se, everything is done by contract and delivered to the Station as needed. The Texas Eagle( aka Eaglete)is supplied in Chicago for the Roundtrip 4 day/2 night route between Chicago and San...

True this! The difference between riding between Chicago and San Antonio on the Eaglete, compared to the Sunset Ltd between San Antonio and LA, is like riding a late 1960s SP Sunset Ltd compared to the Santa Fe's Super Chief!

UP routinely does track work in Texas, especially East Texas, which is why you'll ride #22 from San Antonio to Ft Worth, board a Bus to Longview where you'll board Train #21 which will be the consist that came from Chicago overnight,and will be turned as #22 in Longview to Chicago...

This is a Guaranteed Connection by Amtrak so the Train won't leave til you board in Emeryville

Jackie Kennedy Onasis led the "Save Grand Central" Movement.

Key phrase is ".. adopted home is in the South.." I grew up in various places ( AFB Bases) in the South, and my dad was from South Carolina. Every Southerner I ate with @ Breakast had Grits served with Butter and Syrup/Molasses or Jelly, plus as you said Salt/ most Southerners used too much...

Butter and Syrup/ Molasses are the proper way to eat Grits!😁

My dad would tell us that the B-29 was the most complex Plane that the Air Force ever had, and that the Engines and the Hydralic systems were the most Troublesome!

My dad flew Missions from Tinian to Japan on 2 B-29s during WWII (" Man-O-War" and "The Spearhead"). Back in the day I was a Member of the Confererate AirForce Ghost Squadron( Now renamed the Commenrative Air Force) and was able to ride on a B-17 and B-25, and to tour a Flyable B-29 during an...