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I wonder how she will spice up her *** scenes with the jolting and rocking of the train.

It's actually a how-to sort of book about traveling with a service dog . . . by air, cruise ship, and highway as well as rail. Look for it in early 2018. It's aimed at new handlers of service dogs rather than the general public. I doubt that most people will be interested.

Thanks to everyone for their answers . . . especially the one on the automatic sprinkler system!

Are the two sections of the Empire Builder at Spokane handled in such a way that a service dog team can safely get off there either westbound or eastbound? (Yes, this is for the book discussed in the Crescent service-dog thread.) Is there anything to be wary about other than getting on the right...

Warnings from folks such as Thirdrail7, JIS and Steve4031 suggest to me that Washington should be used as a grassy relief stop only in an emergency and only after consultation with the conductors to make sure there is sufficient time. I do believe most service dogs will take advantage of the...

AmtrakBlue, I'm getting off at Alexandria, actually, but this trip is for a new book about traveling with service dogs. That's why my question about Washington. I'd forgotten about the engine changes. I take the Cap Ltd from Chicago to DC several times a year and know how to beeline out to the...

Thanks to everyone! This information is helpful. Now, how long does the Crescent normally stop at Washington, D.C.? Is there time to take a dog upstairs and out of the station to the grass outside before the train departs, or is that a fool's errand?

Soon I'll be traveling with my service dog from New Orleans to Washington on the Crescent. While I know that Amtrak will accommodate a service dog for as long as it takes for relief at any station stop, I prefer to work with the crew and use baggage, crew change and engine service stops whenever...

Soiling of the furniture (by whatever means, including spilling of drinks) may be frequent enough so that Amtrak keeps a few extras to use while the originals are being cleaned.

I liked the lounge the first time . . . roomy, handy, close to the redcaps. Second time, though, one of the couches was soaked with urine. I discovered it the hard way. Within ten minutes of my informing the gatekeepers of the problem, the old couch had been whisked away and a new one installed...

The intensity of finger-wagging rivet-counting on this forum's foamer spectrum is amazing. I do think the New Yorker's vaunted fact-checkers do the job only for the magazine and not for the Web blogs. It's also possible that the bus picture was miscaptioned by the photographer's catalog...

I heard that story about the train splitting and the lady getting left behind from at least seven sleeping car attendants who swore it happened on their train. Some told the story with considerably more relish (and eyebrow wagging) than others.

Just make sure the Portland-bound passenger of the opposite *** that you invite to your Seattle-bound sleeping car on the Empire Builder goes back to the coaches before the train gets to Spokane.

Must be this one: http://streamlinermemories.info/?p=4684 I suspect the writer reached into memory for the Adirondack but came up with Aristocrat instead.

I thought this was rather appealing. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-secret-lives-of-amtrak-passengers

If you're in a sleeper, the Sightseer Lounge is on the OTHER side of the dining car, I think. I am not sure. There will be plenty of folks to jump on me if I'm wrong. Edited: I AM wrong. The sleeper for 27 is on the rear of the train, so one has to walk through the coaches AND the Sightseer...

I wonder if the conductors and attendants may have just failed to look at the manifest. Now that I have a service dog, I make sure Amtrak knows I'm traveling with one. Sometimes both conductors and on-board staff are surprised when I get on. Last week when I took Train 80, the Carolinian, from...

I believe that the IRS expects a certain portion of an Amtrak server's income to be from tips and red-flags the return if the figure is under the expected sum. Stiffing on the tip can cause problems for the server. (Of course, this comment is based on extensive interviews with on-board...

The H room shows up on the Amtrak website as available to ANYONE if it isn't sold by a certain time before train departure. I don't know if that time is 24 hours or longer. The morning of a trip from Washington to Chicago on the Capitol Limited, I decided to see if I could score a bedroom...

If you're in a public place and a photographer includes your likeness in his photo, you have no right to privacy. But if the photographer sells the picture for advertising or other commercial use, you have a right to monetary compensation for use of your likeness. (Journalistic use as in the...