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I had a vacation week so I decided to play the odds and see if I could finally catch a ride on the Zephyr as it detoured through Wyoming. Luck was on my side, as just hours before the train departed, the detour was confirmed. I had a roomette #8 in the 0532 car. The two sleepers ended up being...

It was all UP pilots from the looks of it. The Amtrak conductors swapped out in Green River.

Here are the times we reached each location along our detour... Denver - 0805 Greeley - 1003 Speer/Cheyenne - 1103-1114 (engineer change) Laramie - 1228 Rawlins - 1424 Rock Springs - 1607 Green River - 1635-1647 (full crew change) Evanston - 1827-1829 (engineer change) Ogden - 2017-...

On 5 right now... we’re in between Rock Springs and Green River. No freight interference all afternoon, just once in the big yard just after departing DEN for about 20min. Besides that smooth sailing. Crew change was in Speer and I guess one in Green River which is not that far away. It’s been a...

Sleepers are maybe 1/3 full out of CHI. Several pax going to SLC. I’m going all the way to EMY. Will be curious to see how the load is out of DEN. For anyone who’s taken this detour...would you recommend the right side or left side in terms of views, or does it not really matter?

I’m on this train 5(20)! Actually this was the reason why I booked this trip - the chance of getting the Wyoming detour which has eluded me for years lol. Pretty excited right now.

The tri-weekly service advisory has made it to Amtrak.com, and the reservations system looks like it’s been updated to reflect the new schedules for all train.

From the few times I’ve ridden the San Francisco bus, they are nicer than Greyhound, as well.

They put me in the transition sleeper on #6 back in July. Room 17. I had the entire car to myself. Of course I barely saw the SA, but that’s neither here nor there.

Interesting! Appreciate the response.

I'm kind of tempted to take this because it covers some terrain that I've never seen... namely, CA-58 from Bakersfield to Barstow and CA-26 from Ventura to Castaic Junction. You can't cross Tehachapi Pass by Amtrak train but you can by Amtrak bus. Heh. Has anyone been on this thruway route? I...

I changed my 422 LAX-CHI to the LAX-SBA-EMY-CHI route on the 19th just in case the trains will still see a re-route via Wyoming.

There goes the overnight NOL connection between the Sunset and Crescent. It's a shame, really, because if the SL schedule could have been amended, you could have had SAME DAY connections for city pairs like ATL-HOU, ATL-SAS, ATL-LAX, BHM-HOU, CLT-HOU, etc. But instead of taking advantage of the...

No but I’ve seen it from the train many times.

There is no cost, and I would assume it'd be relatively safe... there's just not much going on there, with hardly anything around the station itself. Looking at Google Maps there seems to be 9 or so parking spots. I would say it's a pretty "remote" station.

I was watching this video from the Iowa Pacific/Grenada Railway passenger excursion on the former Illinois Central mainline in Mississippi, and it got me thinking about when the CONO used it up until being moved to the Yazoo District in 1995. The Coldwater Bridge crossing looked kind of, eh...

I grew up in a family that flew everywhere. Yet my grandparents owned some land near Hattiesburg, MS, so about once a month we’d take the train there. This went on for years (during the 1980s), and those trips sealed my love for trains. Of course I liked to fly, but the first time I ever took a...

Does anyone know if Amtrak sends its new classes of customer service agents to out-of-state training at a training center like airlines do? I know conductors get sent to Wilmington, correct? Was mostly just thinking about the new agents that are being brought back in 15 (?) cities...assuming if...