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Check the Grounded Life Travel channel on YouTube (they also have a blog) for their videos discussing Viewliner I and II sleeping car rooms. A bedroom will have more storage space than a roomette (and probably more storage space than a Superliner bedroom). My husband and I plan to each take a...

The coach car we were in may have been a Horizon, then (or an Amfleet I). I know we definitely did not have enough room to stretch out, and the hubby and I would swap seats (between each other only, of course) whenever one of us had to get up, just so we could switch which foot was going numb.

The Superliner coach seats on the southbound Texas Eagle (as shown in the video at the end of the previous TE thread) seemed to have a LOT more legroom than the older single-level (Amfleet?) coach cars on the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner regional train the hubby and I were on last fall...

There are already Corridor trains/combinations of Midwest Corridor trains which can take passengers to Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, and (soon) Minnesota, so why not Indiana as well? I like that idea!

I guess we'll find out about lunch on the way back this fall!

That first image reminds me just a bit of the scene from the viaduct tunnel where Dudley Dursley is attacked by dementors, at the beginning of the 3rd or 4th Harry Potter movie, I think. The viaduct was a more confined space, however, which would have made being approached by strangers (of any...

When the hubby and I ride the Texas Eagle Pontiac, IL-Ft. Worth, TX roundtrip this fall, those are the 2 flex meals we'll be having on the return trip. (On the southbound trip it'll be supper + breakfast + lunch.) Should be interesting to compare the meal presentation on the Eaglette to your...

I've traveled to Indy a number of times (for GenCon each summer), but always by car rather than by train, and we were never in downtown Indy after dark. I'd have similar safety concerns about arriving at/departing from the Emeryville, CA station (from what I read about it on this forum last...

I would think that, if passengers with mobility issues were arriving or departing at Indy on a day when the only access between platform and station was via stairs, it would be on Amtrak to find a way to get those particular passengers from point A to point B. If a mobility-impaired passenger...

I remember when I was tutoring my kids after school, one of the Mennonite publishers whose materials I used had Spanish-language editions of many of their publications, so Amish living in Mexico (who their Amish relatives on Amtrak might be going to visit) makes sense, as they'd be using those...

There was an Amish couple on the other side of the aisle in our Coach car on the eastbound Missouri River Runner last fall; can't recall if they continued on the northbound Lincoln Service after St. Louis. They had brought food from home, which looked a lot more appetizing than the Cafe Car...

I got to witness that last fall on the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner (same tracks as TE as far as St. Louis).

The hubby and I will be doing a roundtrip Pontiac, IL to/from Ft. Worth, TX in October, so I'll have a better idea of which direction has better scenery once we get back from that trip.

The hubby & I went casual for our roundtrip on the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner last fall: Jogging pants + short-sleeve shirts for him, jogging pants + T-shirts for me. (Also a sweater for him and hoodie for me, because it can get a little chilly at night in the Midwest in October.)...

The NB Eaglette typically passes Dwight, IL (approx. 20 miles NE of the station stop at Pontiac, IL) sometime between Noon and 3PM, always before I see the SB Eaglette passing my office window (usually sometime around 3:15PM-3:30PM). Had I been at work today (the courthouse was closed, so our...

I think the Dwight, IL station has a lift (I've seen it in use, but not where it's stored), and that's sufficient for a small station like ours with low ridership.

That's what my family has routinely done with other trains, whether it was the Lincoln Service/Missouri River Runner boarding at our hometown (also an unmanned station), or waiting with our son in Kankakee for him to board the Illini or Saluki to return to law school in Carbondale, IL.

Maybe it's just my local Subway, but I always get a gassy tummy after eating Subway, no matter how bland the sandwich is. As to "grocery store freezer meals = Flex dining", supermarket freezer meals usually don't make me gassy, so maybe I'll survive Flex dining on the Texas Eagle this fall...

The hubby and I will be taking the Texas Eagle this fall, but we live on the route, and have an overnight planned (in Fort Worth, TX) between the southbound & northbound journeys. I haven't been an Amtrak sleeping car passenger since the old Slumbercoach days, so even the Eaglette will be an...

Been there/done that, catching the Empire Builder at Fargo, ND to get home from college in the 1970s. Not great, but better than no passenger rail connection at all.