Recent content by Steve's Wanderlust

I opted to rebook via SWC & bus bridge to the Heartland Flyer as our trip falls on a track work week. Two new-to-me routes and I'd say one traditional dinner aboard train 3 is worth three flex meals aboard 21.

Fantastic! My oldest daughter & I will be in a roomette on 3/31.

While ultimately speculative that conmentary illuminates the situation well. I'm only 41 years old, but I consider Amtrak's reaction here to be a degradation of the general view of our human possibilities in winter. Though I see a lot more folks up here in MN wearing light to no coats &...

I'll be riding the Eagle on 4/1. I always tend to barely miss service restorations in my bookings! This might break that habit.

The same code can be used for each person passing through the fare gate. I did this last week by having my daughter go through first on one scan, then I went through with a second scan of the same bar code.

Such was so this morning at PHL. Though the young lady ushering our train 110 was overheard saying she'd not yet worked the line for "this train" (her words). There's a lot at play, people-wise that can hold up a process these days. Our line at track 2 was allowed to queue between the ticket...

There's certainly a considerable disparity between Amtrak's marketing team & OBS. Such isn't unique to Amtrak, but closing the gap through development of all staff as one group of coworkers rather than compartments of ad-people & train crews would help. Long-standing cultural divides are...

The overhead racks above seats should be spacious enough for most any bags. You'll have easy access to bags throughout the trip. No worries.

While aboard the Silver Meteor in '23, the crew member working the dining car offered to get me the Starbucks blend he brewed there anytime I needed a cup. It was the first time I tasted an example of the Pike Place Blend that I found to be palatable. :) He could also give Flex meals a fantastic...

Living in metro MSP I'd really prefer a morning trip at 6am prior to the Builder's slot, the midday/late morning train could move an hour earlier or later - that matters less to me as that train has only one good connection in Chicago (Lake Shore Ltd.).

I prefer 7/27 to 1333 to maximize my time spent in CHI, and for the dining & sightseer lounge cars.

The LCA seemed stressed out, others were performing well enough I didn't notice.

7(2) is departing on time!

We have been called to board via the south gate lounge, anticipating an on-time departure for 7/27(2).

I'm booked on 27(2) out of CHI. I will update later.