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One detail missing from the reports is what happened to the Seattle bound passengers after they were rescued. They couldn't retrieve their cars till this morning, in Bremerton. So, where did they spend the night, and were they put up at hotels...

Read it and be jealous...so far beyond even our new, improved traditional dining on Amtrak... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/travel/central-europe-trains-dining.html

Back in 1980, I took a mammoth Greyhound bus trip from Boston to Seattle, via Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, Hereford Texas, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Portland. I quickly learned then that when the line of passengers was long, where you wanted to be was at the...

We had a parallel situation when we rode the Canadian when one of the dining car staff whose first language was clearly French did not take our order, but passed along to the next table. The staffer who did take our lunch order told us that all customer-facing staff were required by Via to be...

Looks like you've been accurately pricing current sleeper fares!

Those photos are shocking! Has the area applied for federal disaster funds? It looks like a disaster to me, anyway.

Maybe so, but they are awfully fragile and extremely combustible. They were planted in Portugal to be quick-growing trees for paper pulp, but escaped as non-natives so often do. The terrible fires the past few years have been devastating, and a number of drivers sadly lost their lives when fire...

Good local beers on that Cascade Bistro Menu list--especially the Black Butte Porter.

The problem is, it only takes one person to leave the bathroom messy, and as a result, others who follow feel like they can, too. I appreciate the attempts by Amtrak staff to remind riders to keep the bathrooms tidy. This reminds me of when the Singapore Straits Times ran a column "toilets...

I'm worried that they would keep sleeper prices as they are and then charge the pre-paid meal price anyway... If I trusted Amtrak to actually lower sleeper prices by unbundling food, though, this would be a way to make the dining process more efficient for Amtrak and allow sleeper passengers to...

Slightly offtopic, since I've never actually booked an accessible room, but about ten years back, I broke my left leg pretty severely. ( I still have a rod, two plates and about a dozen screws keeping things ship-shape in that leg.) I had just given up my knee scooter before our Amtrak trip and...

Whether the return of potential dining car meals for coach passengers helps Amtrak's bottom line is, unfortunately, unknowable, probably even to Amtrak. It should help a little, given that the staffing is a sunk cost and I would presume that the raw materials are within a profit margin for the a...

Thanks so much for bumping this issue up! I would have forgotten to send in my comments absent your reminder.

Hi gamereric21! I spent my last three years of high school in Millis, MA, which 50-some years ago was a small working class town where the boys on graduation picked between working at the GAF asphalt roof shingle factory or the Herman Shoe factory. Both long gone, I suspect. And I would guess...

Agree that the 787 is quieter and has a more comfortable atmosphere than the old 747. My attachment to the 747 is partly nostalgic; it was the last plane designed by Boeing back when engineering innovation and safety were the twin watchwords. My 'meh' rating for the 787 is a function of my...

A second Lake Shore Limited would also be great to provide more options for missed connections eastbound on western LD trains. I'd be happy to have another backup route to the Northeast regardless of where I was actually heading, since it's not hard to get to just about anywhere in the Northeast...

Loved the 747, am decidedly meh about the so-called Dreamliner. Of course, that is mainly hypothetical post-retirement; my long haul flying has shrunk considerably!

Maglev makes a very good point, that coach occupancy overnight makes a big difference to your experience. If you are traveling in the summer, I would expect pretty high occupancy in coach, even overnight. Shoulder season, spring or fall, you might have better luck. Given that you are traveling...

Flying is going to be the quickest and possibly cheapest option, depending on when you're going. For example, a nonstop flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh on Alaska leaving about 9:30 in the morning gets you into Pittsburgh at about 5:30 in the evening, and for mid April, the cost is about $250...

Ah, my bad. Reading too quickly...