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Something like this might be useful aboard a train: http://www.amazon.com/Travel-Accessories-European-Water-Heater/dp/B000BKET1K/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1343147996&sr=8-8&keywords=cup+water+heater

That would probably depend on how many passengers there were on No. 8 who were connecting at Chicago for No. 59, I'd imagine. Maybe an Amtraker can give us the skinny on this.

What Steve said. March and October are my favorite train travel times: less competition for low-bucket roomettes (or Guest Rewards bedrooms). Passenger loads are lighter, OBS not quite so busy. But I'm biased in that I'm retired and don't have to travel at peak times.

What everyone else said. Just don't be in-your-face with either passengers or crew; be discreet and nondisruptive. Ask sleeper attendants and even conductors if a companion can photograph you with them at a station stop. More than one has told me he or she considers it part of the job. Best...

It is easier to accept motives when the poster employs his or her real name online, even as a "guest." The famous AVSIG, the first CompuServe forum back in 1981, is still going strong as an independent forum—and it still requires real names. Cuts down a lot on the trolls.

This problem seems to have been solved, but I want to say that one of my sons had three pet rats (not all at the same time), all of the hooded variety. Pippin, Frodo and Bilbo were all quiet and polite, and remarkably intelligent as well. And they did NOT smell. There was no reek. In the wild...

My wife and I did the Chicago-to-Grand-Junction-on-the-CZ thing three years ago. Easy walk from station to our hotel, lots of restaurants on the main drag, and Enterprise picked us up at our hotel. The drive to Moab (do take 128) is easy. The parks will be jumping at this time of year; when we...

I'm so old I still think of ORD as Orchard Airport.

Penthouse photo shoot, piffle. This morning the L.A. Times ran a story about a ****o movie orgy scene being shot in the L.A. Coliseum at night with all the lights on in the early 2000s. It is not known who authorized the shooting but there are plenty of suspects.

Hey, everybody: I may be the OP, but I ain't the one who wanted to give the crew cupcakes. I just posted for a friend of mine who likes Amtrak and its crew members. I told her what you all said and she decided cupcakes weren't the way to go and instead is going to sweeten the cash tips. Doesn't...

Posting this for a friend who isn't on the rail forums: Do you have any idea of about how many would be on the operating crew and the service crew on such as the Crescent (or some comparable train)? I have a friend who does professional cakes - and because of my not hearing well and not seeing...

One evening last fall on the SW Chief westbound, we were startled when the LSA in the lounge car announced that if anyone made any hostile remarks about race, gender, religion, national origin or sexual orientation, that person would be put off the train at the next stop. (At the next stop a man...

I voted Yes in the beginning but after the reasoned discussion would have voted No. Too late to change the vote, I guess.

Suggestion: If you're planning to go on a Friday, check to see if the Cubs are playing the Rockies in a Saturday day game. Cub fans often take the Zephyr overnight just for the game and return that night.

Same on the California Zephyr in March. French toast on No. 5, pancakes on No. 6. Both excellent. I'm not sure, however, if one was available the first day out and the other the second day out.

I believe those window washers are Amtrak employees, or perhaps work for a third party hired by Amtrak. There are similar washing gangs for Nos. 5 and 6 at Denver and (I believe; am not up that late) Salt Lake City.

What Texas Sunset said.

Well, there were Three Stooges, and nobody could have been more suspicious looking than Curly, Larry and Moe. And, of course, Shemp.

I'd thought one big reason the TVs disappeared from the Sightseer Lounges was the advent of the personal video player. That and the bad-ordered TV sets and cassette players.

Come to think of it, I suspect the OP is a freelance journalist doing a bit of "crowdsourcing" in order to produce a lively article for, say, the National Enquirer. He better hurry up and do so before I get there first. This is funny stuff.