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ButtercuP at 3rd and Broadway.

Love to see that going under the George Washington Bridge.

I arrived in LA on the TE/SL at 0445 a couple of weeks ago. The Lounge was open! A redcap drove me to the ticket office area, up in the elevator, and wow, cheerful helping employees. I did a bit of shuffling of dirties for cleans, and they took care of checking my big rolly bag for the next...

Part of the toilet problem is that some of the riders can't resist flushing paper towels or other bulky matter, and once one of the toilets is jammed like that the whole car shuts down. They make announcements, which are ignored by a few (Oh, what do they know).

I don't see any Crescents on the tracker. A couple of them have gotten through the past few days. Maybe the WIFI is down.

Well, I better use my time in New Orleans to stock up on food. I see at least one item in all but one of those dishes which give me reflux. My 75-year-old stomach is rather tender. I think I'll take lunch on board with me, and have the chicken fettucine alfredo for dinner.

I'm booked on the Crescent in a roomette on October 6th New Orleans to Charlottesville. Yes, it will be nice to go to the diner. Last time, a couple of years ago, there was no choice.

I transferred in Sacramento last time I was out there, but I was southbound on the CS and thus arrived in the morning. I took the light rail out to a Holiday Inn at Rancho Cordova, and light rail back in the morning to catch the CZ. Not sure how late the light rail runs, or how much an Uber...

I bought a very comfortable Amtrak jacket with capacious inside pockets (What has he got in his pocketss?) on my big trip in 2017. I don't think they are available anymore. I love it, and whenever I am somewhere that a jacket is needed, I wear it (not Texas, right now). It is similar to those...

Back in the 1990s there was a tourist train using old 'Heritage' sleepers and a diner from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City, and I took a bus from Fredericksburg to San Antonio, then another to Laredo, and a taxi across the border to get on this train, in order to visit a missionary friend who was...

I'm planning to be on the Texas Eagle 421 sleeping car leaving Chicago on Tuesday October 15th, passing through my 'home station' Austin on Wednesday the 16th, and arriving in LA on the 18th. on the 19th/20th the Coast Starlight to Portland, 21st/22nd Empire Builder to Sandpoint; then 25th/26th...

I have carried my collapsible walking stick/cane on and off of Amtrak trains for many years, with no difficulty. I need it for stability, as I tend to totter a bit, but not so much for support. It folds up nicely into one of the pockets of my backpack when I have my rolly suitcase as a...

There are some great ones, but sadly, others whose attitude seems to be "This would be a great job if it weren't for all these passengers." I think my worst experience with a conductor was during the COVID maskness, when I was on the Sunset going from New Orleans to San Antonio, sitting in my...

One time I was going north around this curve, and a lady asked what that big building down there was. I told her it was a prison, the California Men's Colony, and she said sort of angrily that they shouldn't put prisons where people could see them, because they spoiled the view.

Even with the dragon, lock your bags. Run a bicycle lock through all of them. The dragon will notice someone carrying two or three gags chained together.

I agree with needing an onboard manager, and proper training of the onboard crew, and a passenger service manual that they actually adhere to. Too much of what is wrong with individual trips is due to not enough supervision, allowing, for instance, the CSA decides not to make coffee; the...

I plan to arrive in LA on the 421 TE/SL on Oct 18th and leave on the 19th on the Coast Starlight. I'll report on the Metro Plaza, and Philippe, and conditions in and around the station. I'm riding 421 from Chicago. I live near Austin, and have been on the leg north (TE) numerous times, and the...

I'm booked in the 2830 sleeper Portland to Sandpoint (0220, oh my!) EB in October, and I plan to hit a deli for some food to take onboard. Not counting on Amtrak much. A couple of days later I get back on at Sandpoint into the 0831 (0220, oh my!) for the rest of the trip back to Chicago, and...

My last trip on the Crescent, in 2022, the only thing worth eating, or which even had a non-dogfood appearance, was the salmon. Had it once on the Cardinal, twice on the Crescent, both trains gave no option but eating in the room.

My brain has been on 1990's prices. My first trip on a long distance train, in December 1968, was the Broadway Limited, Chicago to New York, and dinner was about $10-12, and breakfast in the morning was $8. Of course my Navy pay was $113 a month then as a Seaman Apprentice (E-2). I have been...