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I saw $5.65 for diesel cash on a truck stop billboard the other day! Luckily I sold my diesel truck and bought a little two seater stick a few years back. Honestly, though, since I only buy gas when I need it, and when I need it the cost of recovering from running out greatly outweighs the...

As one who has no sensible chance at all to go anywhere on Amtrak except to board the Crescent in Clemson or Greenville, going one direction or the other regardless of final destination, I heartily agree sleeper fares are ridiculous on this route! I’ve lived here for 12 years now and I don’t...

Just curious…why just that route? Are the other Via Rail route on CN tracks not subject to the problem at the moment?

Welcome aboard, Kirk! I know exactly how you feel! I’d ride a train just for the sake of riding a train. Watching the world go by outside a train window is almost the most fun I know how to have!

A few years back I needed to take a trip—any trip— to save my “frequent engineer miles” on AGR. So I bought a OW from Clemson, SC, (CSN; about 12 miles west of me) to Greenville (GVL; about 12 miles east) for $8. My wife drove me to CSN just before the Crescent was due, and headed for GVL...

I did the CZ in a lower roomette once. Views a bit more restricted than upper, of course, but otherwise the diff is insignificant IMO. The one thing I did like about it was that we had a long enough layover in the Denver station that I could go to the restroom in the station, fill my bottle of...

When I’m ON a train, my all time favorite map app is maps.me. It does not use wifi at all! No matter where you are! It uses GPS to locate and display a little blue dot on whatever map I’m looking at on my iPad (in my case; could be a laptop), wherever I am. And if you download the...

Yeah kinda what I thought. Thx.

Thx! I’d love to understand this better! I heard a fellow passenger tell me some time back that every railroad uses its own system and Amtrak engineers on LD routes have to know where they are to understand and follow the signals correctly! As soon as you set up a dedicated thread on...

I know almost nothing about the freight train industry. I barely know how to track Amtrak passenger trains online! Is there a way someone like me could find out online when freight trains are due to pass any particular station? Just asking…

What am I doing right now? I’m sitting on the side of the Greenville, SC, station wishing I could ride a train! Anywhere! I don’t even care where! I told my family years ago if they bury me instead of cremate me, I want my epitaph to be All things considered, I’d rather be on a train. A...

I wonder if another risk is that as long as trains do keep running OUT of Ukraine to Poland or anywhere they eventually won’t get back to take more people out!

I’ll,Google this myself but I’ll,ask,here too since so many of you know so much about rail travel. There is a border btwn Ukraine and Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania. I wonder if there are rail lines people might try to get out that way. Right now they could use all the help they can get!

Just a newbie curiosity question about delays caused by freight trains, not Amtrak’s fault. A week or so ago there was a major pblm on the 5/6 line in either Utah or Nevada and Amtrak had to do what you experts called a bustitution to switch the 5 for the 6 and vice versa. I get that. My...

Thx, jis. So what would be their motive for offering both ways at all? Especially with a cost advantage to take the hassle of having to move from one coach or sleeper or roomette, with luggage, to another car going the same place on the same train?

I’ve never done the LSL from Chicago anywhere, so just out of curiosity I just searched the Amtrak schedules page for trains and found a couple choices. One is the LSL 448 all the way, and another choice the site offered seems to be the same train, with a “transfer” in Albany. But it also...

Beautiful! The clips of the food remind me lovingly of the meals I had on #1 in 2017 when I did the entire route westbound. Eggs Benedict for breakfast one morning! On a train! And the entire video makes me wish I could take my own version of a trans Canadian ride: I would start on the...

Jebr, in your reply to the OP you said you’re not sure if there’s a place to store bags “in the lounge”. I assume from the context you mean the sleeper psgr lounge at LAUS. My experience there is several years old, but I do recall quite a stack of large bags in the corner behind the checkin...

Just wondering if anyone knows what went wrong with 7 and 8 in Montana. Amtrak track your train shows “info unavailable “ and the asm map shows both many hours behind schedule.

Just curious…I told my wife at supper I’d feel relatively safe Covid-wise riding in a train since we’d all be masked up (mostly) and if I’m in a sleeper I could shut my door and have that addl layer of protection a lot of the time. She replied what about the fact that air is being recirculated...