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I had never thought about this again in 3 years until this very minute and after reading all these posts. In October 2019 on a road trip from Georgia to the Catskills, we decided to leave the car at the the hotel in Lancaster, take Amtrak to NYP Keystone for a 2-night stay and return Amtrak to...

I, too, add my two cents in agreement. Long for the days remembering my trips ATN-WAS-CHI, especially in the 1990's. Overnight sleeper to WAS; spend the day in Washington Union Station; board the sleeper on the Cap later that day; depart WAS sometimes in the snow in the dome car (there was...

Thanks F900ElCapitan for the post. Does this ever happen on the south and west bound 421 TE @ SAS? I think I remember the connection or dwell time is very long? I have always wanted to ride the TE CHI to LAX 3 night sleeper without change but, now living on the east coast, have yet to do so...

Thanks F900ElCapitan for the post. Does this ever happen on the south and west bound 421 TE @ SAS? I think I remember the connection or dwell time is very long? I have always wanted to ride the TE CHI to LAX 3 night sleeper without change but, now living on the east coast, have yet to do so...

I did NOT see the press conference, but if it was Jennifer Homendy--the current chairman--it seems she has always been known as a great fan as well as a very fair critic of Amtrak under the predecessor chairman Robert Zumwalt.

Let me see if I understand all of this correctly. If I am a passenger on the thru sleeper on 422 TE say LAX - CHI and 422 arrives SAS after the departure time of 22 (and 22 actually has departed without my sleeper) I may be bused to some location to catch up with train 422 SOMEWHERE? What if a...

joelkfla: I think I should just drive over to SAV the next urge I have to ride and get on 91 (or maybe even 92) on a day when a non-ADA passenger can upgrade to an available H in a Viewliner II. I have been critical of this issue for a while without my ever having seen or set foot on a...

saxpower: I am the guy who has upgraded from a roomette to the H bedroom on the Crescent often for the last 20 years when it was available to non-ADA passengers. I always consider it the very best sleeper space on the train, i.e. in the Viewliner I. The Viewliner II not so much so because of...

Amtrak seems to be having a rough time these past few days ref long delays and disruptions. I wonder what time the Silver Star 92-15 got to NYP this morning?? It was running 10+ hours late the last time I checked last night.

I wonder how many passengers actually travel Lakeland to Tampa and/or return. Probably not too many. The change in the Silver Star's schedule occurred in November 2004--Star used to be two sections: JAX to TPA via DLD and ORL + JAX to MIA via Ocala and Wildwood. Changed to one section JAX to...

Take a look at 91-13. Looks like it has not yet made it to Miami. Also 53-13. I don't think the Auto Train departed at all yesterday due to some service disruption. Probably many "unhappy" passengers.

I just had this random thought: what if you went out to the Lakeland Amtrak station and got on the train without a ticket-- destination TPA. Back in the days when to conductors sold tickets he would just get out his fare book collect your money write you a receipt and move on. Nowadays with the...

I think this Lakeland to Tampa quirk has existed since the Silver Star changed its route many, many years ago stopping twice in Lakeland on its way to/from TPA and on to MIA. There was a time when the Star was two sections south of JAX: 81/82 JAX to TPA via DLD, Lakeland on ending in TPA; 91/92...

Yea--and John Mica told me personally in the late 1980's that "he" was a railfan (this was before he was elected to the House of Representatives from my district in Florida) and you see where that got us all!

Saxpower: Thanks! for your response. As I have noted in all my previous post on several forums here, the "H" bedroom should clearly, without a doubt, be designed for the ADA passengers' needs and comfort. My love of the space came in the early 2000's on the Crescent when my wife and I were...

Oh--for the return of W. Graham Claytor. He was a real railroad man; a real passenger; and perhaps knew (or at least was beginning to understand) the Washington DC political beltway. I wonder how well Mr. Claytor would perform in today's climate.

Saxpower: I do NOT know the answer to any of the issues raised in your post but someone more knowledgeable than me hopefully will help you. I will express my opinion on the H bedroom. I, too, am a non ADA traveler and for dozens of times over thirty years have upgraded to this space from a...

Well said and I agree, jis. I shutter to think about the day in the late 1980's when I met <he who shall remain nameless>(before he was a congressman) and invited him to speak in DeLand to a railfan group we were forming at the fire-refurbished Amtrak station there. I have never forgotten that...

With respect, I cannot imagine a happy ending to all this no matter where in downtown Atlanta they might build an Amtrak terminal. Although I was born in Georgia, live in Georgia now and have for a good part of my life, and Amtrak's Brookwood-Peachtree station is the closest Amtrak to my home...

I understand that the "class" system exists on Amtrak (sleeper, first, business, coach) just as it does on other forms of transportation such as airlines or cruise ships. Having said that, it is my opinion that class designation should apply to the accommodation you choose and NOT to whether...