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I'm taking the westbound CZ in a month! For Glenwood Canyon, should I also get to the SSL extra early? Is 20 mins before Glenwood Springs station enough?

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Welcome! Glad you're here. https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/archive/html/history.php I like to use Juckins's website for tracking delay history. Put in your train number (#5) and station (SAC) and you can see how often in the past few months the train has been late. Looks like in the past...

Part 6: Lunch in Chicago After arriving in Chicago Union Station, I dropped my bags off at the Metropolitan Lounge, and walked over to Fulton Market to have lunch. I went to Au Cheval to have their famous cheeseburger, my second time visiting. The restaurant only takes walk-ins and can have...

The best part of the ride was meeting all the other people on board. I met someone who’s working on restoring several electric interurbans and streetcars in the Indianapolis area. I got to meet the owner of the Kitchi Gammi, who was a trainmaster and now manages a shortline in New Jersey...

Part 5: Breakfast on the Kitchi Gammi Club Secret morning section of the trip! This wasn’t part of my original itinerary, but a week before the trip I read a Trains.com article mentioning the Fort Wayne Railroad Historic Society moving the Kitchi Gammi Club for a term, being chartered on the...

After the layover, I went to the café for a nightcap, showered, and watched a movie before going to bed, being rocked to sleep as we passed along Lake Erie.

Part 4: Dinner on the Lake Shore Limited When it was time to board, the Lounge made a call. Unlike WAS or CHI, no attendants walked us over. The front desk just told us which gate to go to, which was simple enough. Pre-Albany, the consist is Baggage, VL1 Sleeper (4912), VL1 Sleeper (4911)...

Part 3: Lunch in NYC I arrived in NYP 30 minutes late. Originally, I had wanted to take the subway to Brooklyn, have lunch at my favorite bakery in the area (Win Son Bakery), and then take the subway back just in time for boarding. It was a tight schedule in the first plan, made impossible with...

Part 2: Brunch on the Acela After the Washington Metro, I arrived at Union Station. I wanted to explore DC and grab breakfast somewhere special, but only had ~30 minutes so I got Blue Bottle and stayed in the Metropolitan Lounge. Come to find out later, my train 2108 was delayed by 30 minutes...

This took place last week but I'm finally getting around to sharing my trip. I'm still quite new to being into trains as a hobby and wanted to take a trip to get a few more Amtrak rides under my belt. I live in Indianapolis and planned a journey with a simple premise: fly to D.C. for breakfast...

Love the high quality post. Thanks for always updating us with Utah happenings.

Yeah, I was really hoping this would pave the way for a return to coast-to-coast Sunset Limited. If anyone wants to read the City Council Meeting Minutes, they're below. 01-709, 01-710, 01-711. https://mobileal.portal.civicclerk.com/event/39/files/attachment/556

City of South Bend approved buying back their old Union Station from a private owner. Plans to restore Amtrak service to downtown seem to be taking shape slowly but surely...

FWIW, my Amtrak.com defaults to English and doesn't switch when I go to AGR. I really don't think this comes from any malice or political infiltration. Likely just incompetence from the Amtrak tech side of things. Amtrak offers languages in English, Spanish, French, and Chinese, a pretty broad...

I'm in the camp of younger folks traveling for the experience/adventure, though I'm splurging on the sleepers with the goal of trying out every LD route. I like to think I'm part of a growing group of young people that grew up in a very car-centric plugged-in environment, and trains offer a...

This sucks. Especially in the face of highways and airlines getting increases. Do we know how bad these cuts might reflect in Amtrak operations for '25? Potential service cuts, or just deferred maintenance? More beatings on the NEC catenary until morale (funding) improves?

Agreed, after the new normal we're seeing with Airo coach recline/thinness and no-seating cafes, I'm hoping they draw the line at LD. On this RFP nearly half of the floor space of the cafe car is revenue seating. I debated between sleeper-front and -back but went with sleeper-front because the...

These changes makes me wonder if it would be cost effective for Amtrak to introduce cart service outside of their Acela business cars. More labor is required, sure, but you could solve crowding in cafe cars (or hypothetically shrink the cafe in cars, giving more revenue seating for the bean...

After a LOT of boredom, I decided to try and trace the RFP train diagrams from their raster images into vector graphics. Attached is a PDF of the results (RFPliner), as well as a long “consist” PDF showing everything as a connected standard train. Lots of things I learned: The RFP Spec contains...