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We all love Amtrak here, but can be as critical as anyone out there. I hope you share some photos!

During the recent cold spells, electric vehicles are being hit with the triple-whammy of reduced battery performance, slower charging rates, and increased demand for cabin heat...

I think it was called the Wolfeboro Railroad. It hauled freight--we picked up a boxcar of excelsia, as they call it in New Hampshire.

It costs $800 for my wife and me to fly round trip to Seattle from here, about the same distance as Concord to Boston (there does happen to be an intervening ocean here...). And we are sometimes willing to pay that. I wonder how much people plunk down to fly from Boston or New York to their...

Welcome! I grew up on Maui, but my parents decided us kids needed some "mainland" experience before we went off to college, so in 1973 the whole family packed up and moved to Concord, NH, for two years. We rode a steam train in Wolfeboro while we were there. I hope you read around and post...

The door plug was made in Malaysia: https://fortune.com/asia/2024/01/18/faulty-alaska-airlines-door-plug-malaysia-spirit-aerosystems-boeing-supplier/

Welcome! The Auto Train is also one of two long-distance trains I have not traveled on, and I just yesterday listed for a friend all the reasons I'll probably never take it... We love trip reports with photos, whether on Amtrak or foreign trains! I hope you read around and post often.

What's really amazing is the extent to which Amtrak actually works to prevent any sort of bargain searches. Does the Freedom of Information Act apply here?

I have pressed the call button and left the room to go to breakfast, hoping the attendant would make up my bed while I was gone. I usually make my own bed, but did this on the last morning of the trip when the attendant needed to change the sheets. I think this worked, but have some memory of...

I recall varying degrees of success with the "Call Attendant" button. I remember seeing a panel in a Superliner (not sure if I or II) Rm 1 with numbers for each room that lit up when the call button was pressed. Also, the light outside your room that illuminates is also the location of the...

My wife and I could not sleep together in the lower berth in a Bedroom. She has had a lot of injuries--thrown from a horse and hit her head, jumped from a helicopter and twisted her knee... She uses a lot of pillows, for one thing. We sleep in a king bed at home, and in our twenty years...

I think one potentially "good way to travel" would be buses with 2-1 seating. Currently, the seats on buses are the narrowest of any long-distance transportation mode. I have heard they have deluxe buses in Mexico (with less legroom for the single seats than the doubles). But I don't know how...

Memberships are a lot more than a few hundred dollars: https://www.delta.com/skyclub/purchasemembership_performRequest.action

I was going to make this same comment, and add that lounges at airports are a great amenity, although one must be a frequent flyer to avail oneself of the privilege for domestic travel.

In my experience, agents are pretty lenient on how to count pieces, as long as it is fairly well consolidated. I checked in my rollaboard with a duffle bag on the handle, and it was counted as one piece.

A little bit of an update today. The Assistant Conductor was injured by a bullet. https://krcrtv.com/news/local/amtrak-officials-say-employee-shot-injured-by-police-during-ois-on-christmas-day

I am deeply saddened by this. I first rode the Coast Starlight 47 years ago, in coach, at Christmas time. I have been on it a dozen times since then, always in a Bedroom--it was an extravagant treat for my first wife and me. It has always been a place where I found joy and beauty...

I just realized that I had a comment pertinent to trains in Costa Rica. When we moved to Maui in 1967, the Kahului Railroad had just shut down its last stretch of track. Two diesel locomotives (I think they were Plymouths) were sitting by the Harbor. (The Kahului Railroad was the only...

There have been a few trip reports about the San Juan Islands and Mount Vernon area lately, and I would like to recommend a hotel in that area. While there a several chain and independent motels close to the station, we like to stay at the Channel Lodge in La Conner, about twenty minutes from...

Those who have said this was useful I suspect are referring to regional trains rather than long-distance trains. As one commented, I don't think it applies to sleepers. My decision whether or not to buy a sleeper room is mainly based on price, although I try to book early to get best room...