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Wow I can't believe it was 3 years ago it's been taking a long time for Amtrak's new fleet to roll out

If you're ok with an e-voucher I'd say book now and keep an eye on the price. If the price goes down just change your reservation to the same train. But at least if you're ok with the current price then you don't have to worry about it going up. I've saved around $500 this year by doing that on...

The best I could find for you right now is this Source: AMTRAK CAF VIEWLINER 2 INTERIORS and this old post on the forum. Source: Viewliner II Bag-Dorm roomettes Seems like both diagrams contradict so I'd go with the bottom one since it was from someone who has helped me on the forums and...

Now that you've mentioned it I've never had any issues with the app. But yeah aside from NER reservations I usually booked everything online. Dropping a couple hundred or a grand on apple pay seems odd to me.

It's a good tool and I'm grateful it exists but it's too minimal for how I search for trips. Often it's faster for me to use the site since I can look only 11 days or something from the start date. But usually, I'm spanning months at a time and I can't check every weekend for the next month on a...

Welp at this point it's so tricky to get a low bucket fare it might as well be a profession. It's too bad we don't have a Google trains to track prices.

If that's true how do we figure out when they come out? I'm looking as far out as the system lets me and the Cardinal is at the mid bucket and the LSL is at the high bucket.

As of late no, but I’ve never been on that train without seeing the second sleeper be a Viewliner II 4912/4812. From my experience most trains that use Viewliner II’s will have the Viewliner II at the back of the train.

I feel like this has always been the case for me whenever I ride on FC or a sleeper. It's rare I see anyone even near my age in anything but coach. It makes sense because my generation tends to be more frugal, for me I only have the ability to do this because I got lucky during the pandemic and...

They can give me attitude and I can forgo giving them their tip afterward. Either way happy or not to do it it's still their job.

Nope, any time you arrive or depart a station. Go as much as you like. Thanks, if the lounge is unstaffed are we still allowed to enter in the morning?

Just let them scan the QR code when you're going to the lounge. It's valid whenever you have a train leaving from or arriving at that station.

I was just more interested in seeing the interior and maybe getting a coffee. I do plan on being on 500, in hopes of catching a talgo.

If it makes you feel better the Youtuber Simply Railways has done something like this too.

I doubt it, I've done split ticketing before not with the coach and a sleeper, but with 2 coach tickets wasn't an issue. I just let the conductor know I had 2 tickets for the same train, I was arriving at the destination of my first ticket when it was scanned so they just scanned both.

I just got a $5 same-day ticket today and went straight to the lounge, I got my money back in snacks 😂

I guess if I were to do it I’d have to be quick and before everyone else gets on. But I would definitely be very unhappy if I was forced to ride backwards because of crew negligence.

Do you think passengers would be allowed to flip the seats themselves? I'd flip everyone's seats for them if it allows us to sit forward.

There's a wide range of services and split points that could potentially work like New Haven, Philly, and DC/Richmond. That's a shame more fleet flexibility would generally be a better thing.

Yeah I guess at short platforms either the train would have to stop twice or passengers would have to get in a specific set before hand.