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Free left luggage at a hotel is standard especially at a level like the Embassy Suites, I've done this many times, including at plenty of Youth Hostels. It's one reason that I don't like AirBNB type house rentals for short stays without a car. They don't give you the front desk to leave your...

19 inches seems really good, and sounds comfortable, the moveable armrests are great for accessibility. l do know materials matter for seat comfort but on airplanes at least, 17 inches verses at least 18 or 19 inches wide is the difference between the armrest cutting into my partners hips or her...

Any one actually have the seat dimensions? Width I'm particularly curious about.

The Amtrak cars had to meet specific Made in America requirements including using US steel because of Federal Funding rules, this was not the case for VIA or Brightline who didn't have to meet these requirements.

When I was in college 2007 to 2011, the college I went to was in the middle of a major capitol project mainly installing ramps, elevators, new accessible paths on the hilly portion of campus, to make campus fully accessible. It was part of a settlement with the justice department after they had...

A friend sent me pictures of them still under construction when he was passing through a month ago.

I know Westerly about 20 years ago (my timing could be off) was retrofitted with lifts on the staircases into and out of it's pedestrian tunnel between the platforms. Right now the former lifts are being rebuilt into elevators down to the underpass. Here's a photo on my website from a few years...

Indiana is paying every taxpaying Hoosier $125 since our state is running with a surplus, couldn't we use that money to restore the Hoosier State and beef up local transit...

Any word on if this will be a midday turn in Roanoke, or will they be storing a second trainset there overnight?

I have one unusual experience where I would have purchased an open sleeper ticket but didn't because a friend offered us their expiring companion coupon. Me and my partner were going round-trip from South Bend to Fullerton in a Roomette on a Cash ticket with a companion coupon making her train...

The press release completely ignored a third route where Amtrak runs on CP rails. The Adirondack north to Montreal and I belive a small stretch of the Ethan Allen Express between Schenectady and Vermont were it starts running on the Vermont Rail system.

I've done this on a Viewliner when traveling alone with the upper bunk widow. It was nice having the Lower bunk in day mode as an "office" On a Superliner I haven't done it. I have slept in the upper bunk of few times when traveling with a friend or more recently my partner. I don't mind...

I wonder if what ever issuer gets Amtrak. Metropolitan Lounge Access could be a new perk for their top of the line high annual fee Premium Card Memebers when traveling on Amtrak. For example I'm thinking if AMEX became their card issuer AMEX Platinum Card Members whenever traveling on Amtrak...

That piece of paper must be agent (I guess from the 1990s pre the now discontinued rebranding as ClubAcela) it's missing Metropolitan Lounges in Boston, Portland and Los Angeles in the text.

The Chicago - Union Station Page on Amtrak.com says the Lounge Hours are from 6:00am to 9:00pm. Don't know how long you'll be on the Lake Shore (or where you going), but one strategy could be planning your luggage in a way that you could check a suitcase or an additional bag in Chicago to your...

An Aussie showed me this ad more than 10 years ago in a Youth Hostel in Seattle when I was describing my hobby traveling and photographing railroad stations. I still sometimes have the tune stuck in my head, it's direct and brilliant. Update: Didn't realize YouTube imbeds automatically!

That's sad news, fully electric overhead wire trolley buses are such a unique part of the landscape in Boston.

The Truckee area has okay Public Transportation on TART, I used it on a couple of car free ski trips to the area, and although their main routes only run hourly it was reliable. In Winter it felt like the main people who used it with a couple of crowded buses only at the times after the slopes...

I still remember riding the Empire Builder back in the days when there was a wine and cheese tasting in the middle of the second day between lunch and dinner in the dining car, I could tell the crew enjoyed running the event but it also added to a stressful day. I remember the event ended with a...

If your arriving in the evening rush hour, the 5:01pm time for the A train is a super estimate. At least pre-pandemic, the only time the NYC Subway really followed its schedule was late at night, when it often didn't because of situations like trackwork or slow zones somewhere on he route. The...