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Just heard from someone who got out to Poland via bus. She only has her cat, nothing else. It took 11 hours (instead of 1) because the roads were clogged with refugees.

Or get off in ABQ and take the Rail Runner round trip to Santa Fe. Or Lamy-bus one way and RR to ABQ after your Santa Fe stay. It is a cool train!

This is another benefit of LD rail vs flying. You adjust to the altitude more gradually. If you can, get off at every possible "smoke stop" and walk around briskly to acclimate to the thin air as you go up. Personally, I feel even 3000 feet and have to take it easy for awhile. And yes, water.

Yay Philly suburbs, grew up in Gulph Mills. We kids could walk to the P&W and rode that just for fun. The Philadelphia area must be the most train-nut-heavy area in the world! Perhaps for a new thread. ;)

We also saw unmasked Amish, on the Cardinal.

We sixty-somethings took the Cardinal and NE Regional in December, and felt fairly safe. We ate in our roomette most of the time, but did sit in the cafe car for better views, from time to time. The restaurant in Maysville KY was the one place that made us nervous, where an unmasked group of 20...

Mostly on freight trains, no?

HO or N?

I really want one of those new blankets they have on the sleepers. I dropped some hints to the SCAs, but nobody slipped me one. They should sell them!

It's sax and violins, but nice try!

Great report! My husband and I took the same trip a few years ago in May, boarding the LSL in the beautiful but under-retailed Worcester MA station and doing an EB/CZ/LSL loop. Your delay may have made you miss some of the upper Midwest scenery, though it's still great crossing the Mississippi...

One or two tables (in non-Covid times) is OK. Eight or ten tables is not. That's what they're keeping from us now. I suspect Covid is the reason they're taking up a whole side of the Cafe Car. It makes sense they would want to stay away from passengers who are eating and therefore not masked...

That's a great trip! As long as you have a good bed to sleep in between train segments, it shouldn't be too tiring. The Cardinal would have more daylight in the scenic New River Gorge going East, but if it's spring or summer you'll have longer days than we did in December. But, the views in the...

The endless prairie, the Great Plains, the big sky, is what might amaze Europeans the most.

We lucked out taking this from NYC to Plattsburgh in October several years ago. We didn't know it, but just for that month it had added a vintage dome car!!! the best!!!

We may be having some mixups of terms, or at least I am. I am envisioning three different things when I hear "diner" vs "dining car" vs "cafe car." Not sure what people mean by "diner" or "lounge car." The SSL (sightseer lounge) is the fabulous viewing car in the West, with booths and lounge...

I still can't figure out what I'm missing. No coupling directions came with the new engine or car. All the parts seem to be working, but it takes five minutes of finagling, wearing strong reading glasses, to get them to fit together, and then the P70 doesn't want to stay straight behind the...

Exactly, I do buy their food (good hot dogs actually) and drink coffee and beer all day. Well, one till 2 PM and the other after 4 PM. 🤣

Couplers OMG. I watched some videos and looked at the Kadee site. But really, is it normal to replace couplers on new trains before you even run them? My problem is, I can't get the new Mantua Light Pacific and new BLI P70 to stay attached. Does a tiny fraction of a millimeter of height...

When we were on the EB a few years ago pre-Covid, we never saw anyone except staff sitting in the diner except at meals. If the SSL was full, we checked the lower cafe or went back to our bedroom, where luckily we could see across the aisle and see both sides. I suspect there is a new rule, in...