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I’m booked on 20 this Friday from Clemson to Newark, return on Friday Nov 17 on 19. I’m in a roomette both ways, which I’m satisfied with. I just got a bid up email. I know what it is but I’ve never used it so I have no feel at all what’s a reasonable bid for a bedroom. I’ve checked the...

Thx again, every1. I know my way around NYC subways so I can do this. I just needed help choosing which routes to run.

Thank you,both.

Are there regular Amtrak or Metro North trains I could ride from either Penn Station or Grand Central that would let me see any of Sunnyside Yard and Hell Gate Bridge as I passed thru or over either one? I can read route maps but that isn’t an easy way in a congested area like this to know...

Thx, every1

Not sure which thread this goes in. I want to take a scenic day trip up the Hudson while in New York for a week next month. I’ve been advised riding up to Poughkeepsie and walking across the Hudson is worth the trip. My question now is how do I get TO the bridge from the train station? I’ve...

I’m almost positive I know the answer but I’ll ask anyway to be sure. From earlier msgs above in this thread it sounds as if the Crescent currently does NOT have a full sit down dining car. Just a lounge, which I assume includes the usual snack bar counter with drinks, nuckable “food” etc...

Oh kool! So that is still an option, weather permitting! I’m glad to know that!

Thx again for continuing to give me good ideas. I checked the Port Jeff Bridgeport ferry schedule and could not find anything in November which is when I’d do it. Is it OOS by then? Weather wise that wouldn’t surprise me. Not sure I’d do Long Island sound in a boat in November anyway...

I’m booked on the Crescent from Clemson to Newark and back Nov 10 and 17 respectively. I’m in car 2011 NB and 1910 back. I’ve been all over the country in Superliners in roomettes and bedrooms but this is my first trip sleeping in a Viewliner. I tried to find a “floor plan” diagram on...

Thx. I also asked elsewhere about up the Hudson and got good responses about the walkway at Poughkeepsie. I may try that instead of LI.

I have a trip to NYC scheduled in November with a few free days when I can take scenic day train rides. I’ve never been anywhere on Long Island beyond Jamaica. Is either of the long routes to the east end of the island especially scenic? I love watching the world go by out a train window and...

For fun, I thought I might check Amtrak.com for a trip from New York to somewhere in Vermont I’ve never been to (which is everywhere in VT). I plugged in NYP-BTN (Burlington) and a random date and let Amtrak give me schedules and routes. The first choice was the Ethan Allen Express, a single...

BNSF derail earlier today, acc to trainorders. Delays of the flyer likely.

Word at Austell vrf cam is track work by NS possibly around Irondale, wherever that is.

Nor sure where to post this, but I’m sure mods will put it where it belongs. I don’t travel by train much any more 😰 but I do have a chance for a day trip soon btwn Chicago and St. Louis. I’m not up to date on which types or models or styles of coaches Amtrak uses on that route. I assume some...

Thx, all. Esp the link to the video.

Just curious. Amtrak runs two trains a day each way btwn Chicago and Carbondale, IL. I’d bet each SB becomes the next NB, but I’m curious how they turn the coaches around. I see from openrailwaymap there’s a wye just north of the station. Does anyone know if they use that? I actually have...

Admins may X this as off topic but I’ll give it a shot. A guy I was riding with once told me he was on the Southwest Chief once when a couple like us posting here was in coach. The husband was in heaven cuz he was on a train but his wife was hating and grumbling about it constantly. The guy...

BOY can I relate to THIS thread! I’d ride trains for the sake of riding trains. My wife just wants to be beamed up, wherever she goes. To her, going to church is a long ride in the car! I got her to agree to do PA - Seattle and back one time by train and the best I got from her when we got...