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A couple years ago I got on the northbound CS in Chemult. To get to my seat in the rear of the car, I stepped over the head of a large sleeping dog whose head extended more than halfway across the aisle. The owner was also asleep in the seat just behind the stairs (9:30AM). I also had to waken...

A few years ago I rode the CZ east as far as Galesburg IL. I rented a car there and drove about 2700 miles in 20 states in a week. I returned the car where I rented it and then caught the SWC out of GBB to LAX. On the morning we were going over the Raton Pass I went for breakfast in the dining...

The Meadow Lake Resort in Columbia Falls has free pickup from the Whitefish station (also free airport pickup). They have good condos (some with hot tubs). After being picked up we got the rental car delivered the next morning from the airport (years ago).

Once you get your unit, sign on to geocaching.com and see what geocaches are in your area. Go and try to find a couple (small to large) to familiarize yourself with the functions of the unit.

My sport is geocaching. Over the past 14 years since retirement, I have found at least 1 cache in all 50 states. I use an old Magellan Meridian. I get them on EBay for less than $90US. I like the Magellans because of the buttons on the front instead of the buttons on the side of Garmin units. I...

If you are OK with coach travel, you could each get a 15 or 30 day USA Rail Pass. You can decide later when you want to go and what routes. You have to use it within a year. You can also get your $ back or get a voucher.

Yesterday's southbound Coast Starlight (11) did not leave Seattle. The northbound (14) will leave LAX this morning. Why can't Amtrak Police carry thermometers and ride the trains instead of having the National Guard standing on the platform?

The northbound CS will be arriving in Klamath Falls OR about 10AM. I have no idea how many people are escaping California on the train. It left Sacramento a little after midnight without the Governor trying to stop it. "Welcome to the Hotel California". You can check out any time you like but...

FYI: There is a Home Depot about 1.6 miles south of King St. station (Utah Ave. S). They might even have a pickup to move stuff you buy there. Please don''t strain your backs lugging stuff you can get in Seattle.

Don't count on your train arriving at 8PM in Tucson. Last month I turned in my rental car in Tucson at 5PM and waited in or near the station until it arrived at 2AM.

In early February I was going from Chemult OR (Podunk) to Yuma AZ (not as Podunk). Since I didn't want to get off in YUM at 4AM, I stayed on until Tucson and got my rental car there. I still had to wait over half an hour for Enterprise to open 9AM Arizona Time. At least I had a seat to myself to...

For the first time ever in many thousands of miles on Amtrak over 18 years, I saw an Amtrak Police officer riding northbound on the Coast Starlight. He had his wife/girlfriend with him. He was a native of the Bronx. I told him that my first Amtrak trip was about 5 weeks after 9/11 from WAS to...

If you have any desire to purchase silver or turquoise jewelry, there will be at least one vendor on the platform in Albuquerque. It is a refueling and engineer change station so you will have some time to step off onto the platform.

A few years ago, my wife and I got off in Cut Bank MT on May 31 (6PM). We had a car rented from a local car dealership with the key in the gas cap flap and the rental paper on the sun visor. We left our Cut Bank motel early in the morning and went through Browning and north to St. Mary and then...

I left CMO about 10 minutes late 8:20PM on 2/6. We arrived in SAC about 30 minutes early (5:45AM). Since I had a connection to make in Los Angeles to the Sunset Limited I chose to take the bus to Stockton, San Joaquin to Bakersfield and bus to LAX route. I arrived at LAUS 2 hours before the...

If you are awake in Spokane, there will be a period of time (5-10 minutes) that the train will be "unplugged" and the heating/AC and lights will be out while the engines are shuffling. Don't worry the power will be on before the combined train starts moving east. You should step off the train...

Good answers above! I have taken this very trip a couple of times. On your trip from Chicago to Erie, you will be on either train 48 or 448 both designated as the Lake Shore Limited. 48 is the one that goes into New York Penn and 448 splits off at Albany and goes to Boston South station...

Last week I was on the Coast Starlight south of K-Falls in the Lounge Car. Someone who was a bit "hot under the collar" came in an said that his bag had been stolen from the downstairs luggage. The Amtrak employee (not Conductor) went down with him to check. Someone had rearranged all of the...

Someone mentioned the North America Railpass (30 days). My very first Amtrak and ViaRail trips were on a North America Railpass in October-November 2001. The trip started in Washington DC about 6 weeks after 9/11 (to NYP). The first NE Regional of the day left WAS at 3AM. I transferred to the...

Before Amtrak i remember going with my dad to go pick up my great aunt in Elmira NY. She got on the Phoebe Snow at the Port Authority in New York. I believe the train went onward across southern New York state to Buffalo. Phoebe wore white gloves because the locomotive used hard coal that burned...