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The dining car slots tend to be roughly 6 am to 8.30 am, 12 noon to 2pm and 5pm to 8.30-9pm. These times are approximate. Basically, a catering attendant will walk through the sleeper cars and ask you to choose a time slot from those available for dinner. Breakfast and lunch is in "first come...

Amtrak trains are pretty safe environments. There should be plenty of room for luggage on a roomette top bunk, just try not to bring the kitchen sink! You could lock larger luggage to the racks downstairs, using a flexible cycle lock for example. In many thousands of Amtrak miles travelled, I...

Gosh, I too am impressed that the LHB carriages did not telescope or rip apart, as well as the front of the loco looking "fairly okay"... I wonder what type of goods wagons were run into, maybe quite low level, given the loco's frontal condition. I seem to remember reading that couplings should...

On October 4, 1883, the legendary Orient Express departed Gare de l’Est in Paris for the very first time, slowly winding through Europe on its way to Constantinople, as Istanbul was then known. During a seven-day round trip, the service’s 40 passengers — including several prominent writers and...

There seem to be one or two of the above who post here on A.U. methinks? ;) :cool:

Strange that didn't happen on my journey from Albany to Boston a few weeks ago... I wonder who got all those snacks? A lot of Amtrak workers do seem to be a little overweight... ;) :cool:

Just as a matter of interest, did all passengers receive snacks, or just sleeper passengers?

Good for you! Best wishes for a good homeward journey!

Thanks for posting, is your trip "just for fun", it seems a quick out and back!

During January 2015, most LSL coach fares from NYP to Chicago, or reverse, are $93 single. Suddenly they shoot up to $216 single after the first week in February. Seems a bit odd? Maybe a glitch? That seems to be the price for all dates then going forward...

The Frontline item draws the same broad conclusions as the video does. 👍

When I worked at B.R. over 40 years ago, AWS was the common safety standard. I have no information about more modern systems, although the video mentions a new "digital" system due in 2025. I wonder if that is going to be similar to that new Indian system called Armour? I understand that the...

I came across this BBC report on a UK train crash, which has a separate video embedded about the Odisha Indian train crash, and rail safety worldwide. (The A.I. content in the video is a bit tedious, but overall the video is informative.) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje3kd8y1j0o

In post #131, back in August, I contacted Amtrak requesting a full refund of my Boston to Chicago fare, which I cancelled due to a bus substitution. True to their word that a reply from the Customer Relations Department might take several weeks, nothing heard, now in October! I have The...

Next thing you know, there won't even be an engineer aboard the automated trains... ;) :cool:

It seems like a very comprehensive system, apparently developed from original "open source" software. I won't pretend to understand all the technical aspects, but it does sound like the Bee's Knees in providing a comprehensive overview and intervention train management system!

Please be aware that there is currently a bus service on some dates from Boston, which might impact luggage sizes carried? What size baggage are you wanting to take? Normal allowance is two bags of 50 lbs. (23 kg) and 28 x 22 x 14 inches each.

I have to be honest and say that while I don't appreciate trains that travel at 30mph, except those narrow gauge marvels, I am also somewhat averse to the super high speed versions. I do admire the technical advances, the convenience and efficiencies of the super fast trains, I just don't enjoy...

Gosh, it will be most strange to see the tracks clear of, err, washing, hawkers, animals, pedestrians... ;) :cool:

Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the urban sprawl of Tokyo, its elevated tracks carrying it south toward the city of Osaka and a place in the history books...