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You've given me so many wonderful ideas, I'm thinking we'll have to spend a whole week there! We're really enjoying the roominess of the roomette in the Viewliner and will welcome another trip as far as Chicago. Thanks so much for all this information!

OMG now I'm almost wishing we had not caught the LSL! We are musicians who love doing jazz and Brazilian. But believe me, we will be going back to Chicago when we can stay a few days. I'll be keeping all your suggestions.

Thanks! If we don't do it tomorrow, Chicago is on our list of cities we have yet to explore.

Will do! There I was thinking we'd have hours for a delightful Chicago dinner. But instead... Dinty Moore!

Yes, they've announced a couple times that they're trying to get us to our train. From what the conductor just said, we should arrive between 9:05 and 9:20. Thanks for the tips.

Thanks so much for your quick reply!

The CZ is by now seven hours late. It may or likely may not get us into Chicago in time to catch the 9:30 LSL. And the only other train that would take us home is the same LSL tomorrow, getting us home too late for a gig. A) is it true the LSL would not be held for all the passengers needing to...

We have also had the experience of the SCA making that request in the last hour or so and of course were more than happy to comply.

Thank you. You have voiced my thoughts even better than I did.

Several times I've purchased a roomette for day-long travel so I could get some much-needed sleep and never had any problem with that. In the past six months we've gone SPG-EMY round trip twice, enjoying the ability to nap during the day since sleeping on a train doesn't give us the greatest...

I've been gifted a 100-year-old Singer sewing machine while visiting on the west coast. In a few days taking the CZ and LSL with that change in Chicago. If I check the two boxes it will be in (one for machine, one for case) in CA, will they make it all the way to MA without my carrying them...

Wanting to see the conditions at the Flagstaff station, I found a webcam at Virtual Railfans. Someone in the live chat was excited to be chatting with a passenger and asked that I do a robot dance. Hubby Dave was glad to oblige:

In our little New England town, hubby and I are known as The People Who Walk. We love the meandering streets, odd dead-ends, and triangular parks in this part of the country, laid out when waterways were the highways and streets started out as paths. We're very close to Northampton MA, founded...

I still have to do Katz's! Back in the late 90s, boxing writer and sports historian Bert Randolph Sugar took me to the Carnegie Deli to have a couple of the biggest pastrami sandwiches my little upstate eyes had ever seen. (Years later he was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota...

Soon we'll be taking the Southwest Chief to Lamy, connecting to and from Santa Fe by the bus you can order in the Amtrak app. After three nights in Santa Fe, we'll get back on the Southwest Chief and get off at Flagstaff, spend a night there, use Groome Transportation (reserve at least a few...

I'm not sure why you would need two roomettes unless there are two of you and one or both are disabled. My husband and I are quite comfortable in one roomette. If one of you doesn't mind climbing up to and down from the upper berth, and if you're accustomed to the overall smaller spaces that...

We spend varying amounts of time in train stations. What's the most memorable thing you've seen, had happen, or made happen in a train station? Hubby (guitarist) and I (vocals) are semi-professional musicians doing flamenco or, more often, vintage vocals in several languages. Once when the old...

I do hope you can do it in a sleeper. While in Chicago, buy food and beverages for the trip. Include one or two things that are delicious but only last a few hours, like a sandwich and quality salad. The rest should be things that last at room temperature. For me, that would be apples, string...

Amtrak already has enough trouble arriving on time to coordinate with its own trains. I can't imagine any other railroad agreeing to hold its trains in the station half an hour, or an hour or three, while waiting for the Amtrak to finally arrive. Am I missing something?

So that's why I was hearing the whistle so loud last time on the LSL, and will again shortly, as we board at Springfield. I can't complain. Not having to sleep in coach, as I did a few decades ago, makes me grateful to lie flat, if awake, to hear one of the sweetest sounds I know.