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CCC1007: Wink.

I am even sorrier.

I am so very sorry.

Amtrak doesn't think about parking lots because it hasn't got the money to build them. Anyway, parking lots are usually the property of local governments if not the freight railroads, and often the stations are, too. No use bashing Amtrak for things it can't control. By the way, speaking of...

"Cheeriness begets cheeriness," goes the saying, and the obverse obviously holds true for certain folks on this forum. Some of the members remind me of Joe Btfsplk.

Bagels, crackers, cheese, sausage, Doritos, carrot sticks, and THREE bottles of wine. (The whole trip runs three days, you know.) Also, get off at every service/smoking stop, then Fitbit up and down the length of the train. (Fitbit has become both a noun and a verb at our house. "I'm going out...

Caravanman, no harm no foul.

Yesterday I had a very good lunch at Sepia, 123 N. Jefferson, two blocks from North Western Station (4 blocks from Union Station). Moderately upscale American cuisine (lunch $25 including tip) in an old 1890s print shop full of vintage Chicago memorabilia. Highly recommended.

My speculation was wrong. The only designated pet cars, it appears, will be on the Illinois corridor trains. Passengers with pets in containers can sit in any coach. Not food service cars or sleepers. So it seems that sleepers in the front or sleepers in the rear will continue to follow past...

Learned some interesting stuff today. 1. Except for Illinois regional trains, no coaches will be designated as pet cars. Anyone carrying a pet in the proper crate can sit in any coach (not business class, food service cars or sleepers). Amtrak says that more allergens are carried on the clothes...

I think that to expect a random pet always to behave differently from service animals not only generalizes from the particular ("in my experience"—sadly, I do the same thing) but also begs the question. Many pets are well behaved; many are not, just as humans are. Conductors have the power to...

Service animals are allowed on overnight train trips and they do fine. No reason to expect that pets won't. Quite possibly Amtrak is going into the water slowly and carefully with that 7-hour rule to see what happens before they allow pets to swim out to the raft. (I know this is a weird...

Oh, they'll be loaded, probably too much so for allergies to kick in.

I am wondering if after February 16, when the new pet regulations take effect, the sleepers will be permanently up front so that the last coach in the consist can be the pet car. This assumes Amtrak has thought of that so as not to inconvenience those with pet allergies; they wouldn't have to...

Please clue me in on the cases in which children were kicked off Amtrak trains. I vaguely remember one but not others. (Ten minutes later.) Seems to be ONE case. Doubt that there's a trend.

I wonder what would happen if someone was going, say, from Chicago to Hastings and the train was delayed by three or four hours en route, stretching the 7 hour limit into 10 or 11 hours. Would Fido be dead on the law after seven hours? Would a cab have to be dispatched at oh-Godawful-thirty to a...

I feel that I must share the following vital knowledge with all members of Amtrak Unlimited: Theoretically, one could take a pet from Chicago to Emeryville on the Zephyr despite the 7-hour limitation. All one has to do is get off the train and stay overnight in Ottumwa, Holdrege, Fraser, Grand...

Trainman's Daughter, what a sneaky way to finesse the Amtrak requirement that pets cannot sit on the seat! :giggle: Yes, I know the pet must be in a carrier, and that the whole caboodle cannot weigh more than 20 pounds.

Devil's Advocate seems to have a problem with me. Niemi24s, you are absolutely right.

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