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Update to St. Albans Hampton Inn cost: Just wait a few days. A few days ago, it was $197 for two queen beds 2 people, includes breakfast. Today I checked again and it was $167. I paid $12 extra to make it completely refundable. Looking forward to this overnight trip two weeks from now!

The location of Washington Union Station is central as others have pointed out, but the thoroughfares surrounding it are incredibly hostile. Wide, fast car sewers as we say in the urbanism biz. It's psychological as well as physical. Pedestrian crossing buttons are obviously helpful but it's...

Completely agree. Upriver of Reading is also surpassingly beautiful. Hamburg and Port Clinton, en route to Pottsville, are railroad history meccas! TOD is an apt comparison because many of the towns along the Schuylkill are canal towns (my area of research/photography) that are largely still...

Ah, you fixed it. :cool:

Awesome, it mentions a railway! Didn't realize that before. Thank you.

By "longer views" I mean we would be able to see farther across the landscape, since there will be much less foliage. Often trees and bushes right next to the ROW block all views in places! You're right we'll be in darkness in Vermont NB but here's hoping the full moon will be clear and bright...

Thanks! All useful information. Coy elevators, good to know about. I went to a page for the station, and it does look like a handsome classic station. It seems there's a Subway and a Dunkin, at least. On the return trip we have a 3-hr layover if the train is on time (ha) so may take an Uber to a...

Oops, when I entered the date we want to go, and selected refundable, it became $197. Expensive. You all are right. But the train is really cheap! We chose a day with a full moon, so maybe the view will be brightly lit going NB.

I'll add on to this thread since we are currently planning a bucket list round trip on the Vermonter, probably early December 2022. People (above) are saying the Hampton Inn in St. Albans is expensive but I see $135 for a Sunday night, double with two queens, fridge, and hot breakfast. Good! No...

As a longtime Manayunk resident, I can pretty much guarantee that running trains over the Manayunk Bridge again would be opposed vigorously by the communities that have enjoyed the open space (more than a trail) and fabulous views for the past seven years. In general I think it's a huge mistake...

Never mind, the QR pass finally showed up on my Account page. Took a few hours! Never did it get it by email as they implied, but all is good now.

We're going to NYC tomorrow for the day, KIN-NYP and NYP-KIN, to see the Becher photography show at the Met. Our first time to detrain at Moynihan. Speaking of Lounge Passes, I just redeemed the 1500 points, and it showed that I was getting a pass, but there is no pass. It did not come by email...

What about the feel and sound of the train itself? There is nothing like a train ride.

Worth doing! I was just there two weeks ago, and had a wonderful chat with a retired trainman in the Original Steamtown railyard in North Walpole. It isn't open to the public (he was chasing me off, actually) but he told me the next Steamtown was open to drive in, just north of Bellows Falls on...

<< Whenever I have boarded on LD trains in Sleeper on the NEC stops, I have always found the SCA standing at the door looking around for customers headed to his/her car. >> That only works if you're heading the right direction! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sorry for accidental post above. And, sorry to hear the sleeper didn't pan out on the NEC. That was a great way to get from New England to Washington and have breakfast in Union Station before boarding the Cardinal! Plus, free parking (for days) at KIN.

In our case, it was a Northeast Regional, with a Cafe car, not a diner. That has doors at either end. Anyway, we didn't have much time to look at car labels before boarding, just a few seconds really. There should be a conductor sticking their head out at every such stop, so you can at least...

On the trains with platforms level with the train doors, there is often no conductor to ask. When we took the (new) sleeper southbound from Kingston RI one night last December, we had no idea where the sleeper car was and there was no one to ask. We fumbled through the coach cars at 11 PM...

Wow. Excellent interview. Thanks for posting that.