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Not to fan the flames but I have always been confused by the "Freedom" people get with autos. One thing that tends to get overlooked is To me, it is only a "freedom" if everyone can participate in it. There are many people who cannot drive be they too young, suffer from some ailments of old age...

Yes while it is true that for 30x the investment you move much more then 30x the people, however this is quite an unfair assessment. At best you would need to compare Amtrak's trackage fees to the highway number and even that is apples to oranges. Of course I am telling most of the people here...

Sure enough, both the Lake Shore Limited and the CL schedules list 6029 / 6049 (northbound) and 6030 / 6048 (Southbound) on the exact same schedule. I do suspect that this is really only one bus that leaves after both trains have arrived. I have ridden both the bus and connecting train before...

East of Albany the train only has a snack car and not a diner. When I rode last time snacks were still free for sleeper passengers.

I don't really have any suggestions but I do have to say it sounds like a wonderful trip. I hope you have a great time!

OK I see what is going on here. This I did not know, but it is an interesting bit of trivia. In defense of the GG1, the reason the Pennsy didn't want to move the clocker was due to the fact that it was a quite popular train, so I'm sure we are not talking about 7 or 8 cars but substantially more...

I don't know if Amtrak ever served Suburban/Penn Center Station. There is an old article in Trains Magazine the discusses the Old Broad St. Station in that location. After the station closed and the moved all trains to 30th street, they wanted to keep clocker service to NYC out of Suburban...

HSR across the country could be done and done with quite impressive speeds. There are a couple of reasons though it would be unlikely we will ever see it (but we can dream). First without a dedicated right of way trains high speed trains would have to meet FRA buffer strength regulations, so...

If you are worried about a westbound busitution and can leave early in the morning, I suggest taking the train to NYC and catching the LSL there. In the past when I did this, as long as I took a regional the price was exactly the same, plus I got to spend a couple of hours in NYC, more then...

I don't think the times of 448 /449 would make it practical for a meeting. The train returning to Boston is subject to large swings in time. Also because it is not a very high speed railroad, if you make good connections, it can take just about the same amount of time as taking the Acela express...

I was just at South Station (no snow yet) but 2 trains (82 & 194) are listed as 5 hours late. The board already lists 195 (Sunday) as cancelled.

When the railroad was owned by the New Haven they realized the limitations of the shore line route and had bought a new route. The problem was this was the 50's and the writing was on the wall for passenger trains so the sold it off. That land is now being used for I95. Quite tragic if you ask...

Thanks for the conformation. That would be about the time frame I was thinking about. I remember when I was thinking about buying a ticket, the train was in the station and the conductor showed me both cars so I could see what they were like.

I'm just reporting what I saw, however that said I know the train lost the slumbercoach shortly afterwords. I'm pretty sure it was a transitional consist as they were phasing in the Viewliners and phasing out the slumbercoaches. I now wish I kept records of my early trips out of Boston on the...

This might a slightly off topic, but I really miss the slumber coach. I remember when the had both a viewliner sleeper and a slumber coach on the Boston section of the LSL At that time the accomidation charge was like $50 (to Toledo) for the slumber coach verses $200 for the viewliner. I was...