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The Grounded Life Travel channel on YouTube has videos demonstrating the difference between roomettes/bedrooms/family bedrooms/accessible bedrooms on Amtrak, including the differences in top bunks between Superliners and Viewliners.

The hubby and I live about 2 hours SW of Chicago (via I-55 or the Lincoln Service tracks), and about an hour S of Aurora, so not that far from you and @pparish . A small world, indeed!

As a crocheter, some of my "dream trips" are geared around trips to huge/famous/very well-stocked yarn stores, and one such yarn store is the Spinrite Yarn Factory Outlet in Listowel, ON, just a little ways N by bus from one of the intermediate stops on VIA's Windsor-Toronto Corridor route. It...

I appreciated the linked article, as I had no idea of what "HEP" was previously.

You sound like someone my anime-loving daughter (in her late 20s) would enjoy meeting!

Those would be Viewliner I sleepers.

The vegan Blue Corn Tamales on the Cafe menu are a pretty decent meatless option (and a LOT more digestible than the Angus cheeseburger!).

I've signed up for the rewards programs at hotels I've stayed at, and then preferred those hotel chains in future bookings, because they usually give rewards points for each stay. I currently participate in Wyndham Rewards (because there were Super 8 motels near our kids' colleges) and Hilton...

Agreed. Gas-station convenience stores are able to offer pre-packaged cold sandwiches, so Amtrak should be able to also. My local Casey's keeps their prepackaged cold sandwiches in a refrigerated display. If such sandwiches were delivered frozen to a train pre-boarding at the origin point...

Makes my complaint about the duct tape holding the ceiling together on the Missouri River Runner seem like nothing! The time Son #1 was on the northbound Saluki (same tracks as CONO) when it hit a tree was a bigger problem; those passengers got "bustituted" for about an hour while the track was...

I think I got one after the hubby and I rode the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner roundtrip Dwight, IL-Kansas City, MO.

Thanks! When we made road trips to Carbondale while our son was in law school, we usually stayed at the Super 8 in either Carbondale or Marion - great for car trips, but not so much for train travel. Our son's apartment was within a block or two of the Carbondale station on the other side of...

I think @IAlam meant that the Business Class Venture cars just aren't available yet. When they are available, there may not be enough of them initially to replace all of the older Business Class cars, so it might be a gamble which kind of Business Class car you'd end up with (same as with...

There was a duct tape mend on the ceiling of our Coach car on the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner last week. I can do duct tape mends at home, but would hope that Amtrak could do better-quality maintenance than that.

For the hubby and me, Business Class not having access to the Chicago Metropolitan Lounge wouldn't be that much of a hardship, as we'd probably only ride Business Class (in the old or new cars) on the Lincoln Service to Chicago to connect with sleeping car reservations on a LD train.

That's how both the White Castle cheeseburgers and the Angus cheeseburger were prepared (nuked in the packaging) in the Cafe car on the Missouri River Runner last week. The hubby's White Castle cheeseburgers were OK (similar to the frozen ones at the supermarket that we microwave at home), but...

To compare with Business Class in another region, the hubby and I recently rode Business Class on the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner, and there were no assigned seats there. There weren't even 2 seats together for us initially, until a passenger who had boarded in Chicago got off.

There are usually a fair number of the Venture coaches on the Lincoln Service -- but no guarantee that one's seat will be in one of those.

OK. You can tell it's been a VERY long time since I had last ridden on Amtrak!

Arrived in Dwight at roughly 6:25PM, a little late, but not bad. 1 other person was getting off at Dwight, and she knew a couple the hubby also knew. Our van was sitting right where we had parked it yesterday morning at the station. (Not something we'd do outside our hometown, or for longer...