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I have not had an occasion to call Amtrak since before Covid, but I'm hoping to book some overnight long-distance travel sometime this winter, preferably- or hopefully - when there are no mask mandates. Am I to understand from this thread that telephone wait times are longer these days for some...

Forgive me if this has already been asked and answered, but since the title of this discussion is "A New Super Chief" it's interesting to wonder if enough sleeper passengers who do ride the Southwest Chief for long distance purposes could potentially make it profitable for BNSF themselves to...

Well, I'm one that feels that Amtrak employee salaries, benefits, and work rules are very much the business of Amtrak customers. Those employees are there to serve us - not the other way around - and salaries, benefits, and work rules can be very much a component of the quality of customer...

Yes, as a couple of folks have already mentioned, there's a lack of needed LD routes, and especially a lack of connectivity with existing route. As jls states,why not a connection somewhere between the Southwest Chief and the California Zephyr? It's bizarre that any Colorado Front Range...

So, why are cafe attendants like Indy Lions describes above allowed to continue working in customer service? Do the labor unions hamstring Amtrak's hands in firing such surly performers? I'm assuming the reason I never seem to run into waiters and waitresses with attitude problems in 99.99%...

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I was never sure where Santa Fe Junction was in relation to Kansas City Union Station. I tried watching for the Southwest Chief a couple of times but never saw it. For westbound #3, for example, is Santa Fe Junction before or after the Kansas City Union Station stop? And approximately how...

Actually, I feel as Cal does. I don't care for these confounded twice a year time changes. In a search for compromise, what about this idea? Right now most of us spend 7 ½ months of the year in another time zone. And according to the surveys I’ve seen about half the people in the US prefer...

I, too, would like to see passenger rail established again for Wichita, but not at the expense of losing the current heritage route that has long served Newton, Hutchinson, Dodge City, Garden City, Lamar, La Junta, Trinidad, Raton, Las Vegas, Lamy, and Albuquerque. Best way to add Wichita back...

To keep my post simple, here's all I want. What do you think? All I want is Fred Harvey-quality cuisine and diner ambiance.

I think there was one other post above that reminded me of my habits in a sleeper. Probably more often than not, I leave the bed down during the day because I do get sleepy - and like naps. And I enjoy falling asleep to the rhythm of the moving train. And I always bring a book to read - which...

Meeting people on the train? Who might even become friends? This might tie into that idea. The first woman executive of a major railroad was Kansas native Velma McPeek. She was hired by the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad as Supervisor of Passenger Train Services in 1936. Miss McPeek...

Thanks to everyone who gave me tips about Los Angeles hotels near L.A. Union Station. In Chicago I have stayed twice at the Club Quarters Hotel at 111 West Adams at Clark Street, about one block farther from Union Station than the JW Marriott; very reasonable rates. There's a very good...

As a reason to explore Los Angeles Union Station (and of course a good excuse just to ride #3 and #4 between Kansas and the SW Chief end point) I've often thought of arriving at LAUS on #3 and returning on #4 the same day. Of course that's a 10-hour layover. So I've wondered about booking a...

C'mon, it's a little too cold this time of year for that outdoor dining and swimming on top of the car; I'd rather retire to my sleeping car bedroom and enjoy the built-in fireplace.

In the chart above showing fares for the Southwest Chief and California Zephyr, what does C, R, FB, and B mean?

In the pre-Amtrak days, wasn't the Santa Fe Super Chief combined with either a Chicago to New York or Chicago to Washington, DC tran for those passengers who wanted a through transcontinental service?

But those sleeping car attendents are not children. They're supposed to be adult professionals. Why the heck don't they have the basic presence of mind to extend themselves, as flitcrat said, just welcome customers aboard. Do they really need management to remind they that they are there to...

Do the labor unions that Amtrak has to deal with make it difficult to fire malingerers like the attendant IndyLions described?

Of course the sleeper compartments used to always have Route Guides and timetable schedules. And not too many years ago there were local morning newspapers slipped under. I don't recall if they ever furnished the Wall Street Journal also.