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Boarded pretty much on time. Going upstairs to the bedrooms was tricky with luggage in hand and on the back. Our SCA is Andre, and is very polite. Some new choices on the Flex Dining menu; I'm trying the Beef Paprikash tonight. Just left Bloomington a few minutes ago; there was a brief fresh air...

At the Pontiac IL station, waiting to board today's southbound TE. Similar to my hometown station, this is unmanned and trains barely stop for passengers. Amtrak claims the Eaglette will be 6 minutes late arriving here; we shall see. There's an interactive TE schedule online, with links to...

No; boarding at Pontiac, IL. The southbound TE is usually pretty close to on-time when it passes my office window in Dwight on weekday afternoons, so I'll start monitoring train status shortly before its scheduled departure time from Chicago.

Boarding the Eaglette this afternoon. I will try to post trip report updates, as long as I can at least get a cellular signal. Might try to take pictures, too, although not sure if I'll be able to attach them to the relevant posts during the trip. (Typically, my phone saves pics to Amazon...

Thanks for the tips! The link provided is broken, but perhaps I can reproduce your search results by going to opentable.com and entering the address of our hotel in Fort Worth (on the Molly route, and about 1 block S of one of the stops).

The hubby and I will be getting off the Texas Eagle at Fort Worth, TX and returning northbound the next day. I was happy to see that there's a free "Molly the Trolley" service in downtown Fort Worth, apparently subsidized by the downtown hotels. Any suggestions/recommendations for restaurants...

When my daughter finished grad school at the end of 2018 (and spent most of 2019 job-hunting), I watched some YouTube videos in which people used Amtrak Package Express for long-distance moves. They'd be moving from & to cities with checked baggage service (or at least close enough to get a...

The Grounded Life Travel channel on YouTube posted a video on the Floridian this morning:

Another ignorant Texas Eagle question here: where do the sleeping car passengers (like my hubby and me) eat their flex dining meals?

Besides the flex-dining omelette, the breakfast menu includes pancakes and a "continental" breakfast. No recommendations yet, because the hubby and I will be riding the Texas Eagle for the first time roundtrip Pontiac, IL to Fort Worth, TX the week after next. We'll be having flex dining the...

I flew out of Champaign/Urbana to job interviews when I was in grad school back in the 1980s. (Connecting flights each time, I think.) The city buses go out to Willard Airport, and at least for the past 15 years (maybe longer, though not back when I was there), a UIUC student ID gets you free...

A Family Bedroom can accommodate 4 individuals, but #3 & 4 had better be short, because those 3rd & 4th beds are intended for children. I remember watching a YouTube video of a family (2 adults + 2 kids) who boarded the northbound Coast Starlight in Emeryville for an overnight trip; the mom...

The "Illinois Policy Morning Briefing" email newsletter this morning had a link to a Daily Herald article wondering where a Metra station in Huntley along the Chicago-Rockford route could be placed...

Agreed; the food is more important than what it's served on.

Those Emery-Go-Round shuttles remind me of the free KC Trolley the hubby and I made use of when we rode the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner to Kansas City last year. Having free, safe transportation from the Amtrak station allowed us to consider a wider range of hotels, at more affordable...

We started with a set of the white-with-blue-rings Corelle, and supplemented with a set of the all-white as more of the old stoneware dishes broke. (With 5 in the family, we couldn't go all Corelle at a meal until we purchased that second set.)

One would get a bit closer to that $90 amount at slightly more upscale fast-food places, such as Hardee's/Carl's Jr., Arby's, or especially someplace like Five Guys.

We switched from stoneware to Corelle at home when our kids were still growing up, and had far fewer broken-plate incidents when the kids helped with dishwashing.

This might explain the reports I've heard of Venture business class cars being used for coach seating.

"Friendly stegosaurus" here. I've never yet used Uber or Lyft, and don't know how, so a real taxi or public transportation would be more familiar options for me.