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My (limited) experience with wifi on Amtrak is that it barely works, if at all. And email or two can get thru, but mostly forget about large file transfers or even basic web browsing. Most of the time.

They run one - and the schedule doesn't suit everyone. But it's legitimate - I know it is because I have taken it many times returning to New England from the West Coast.

Boy, talk about a railfan window! You see the size of that rear window on the last car? I'd love to ride along with that view through the Rockies....

Nora: Glad it was such a positive experience for you. Most of us here feel that way most of the time - it is indeed a great and very civilized way to travel.

I have felt this way in a roomette. I love to travel with a companion, but the several times I have gone on a LD train alone, I have loved the freedom to make all of the decisions myself (without feeling selfish). And any time you want company, you can go to the Cafe or SSL, or for a meal in...

The way you suggest it, you book the paid room first, do you then call and cancel that after you book the one zone trip as AGR? I am confused...

Thanks... I knew you'd know! (And if I'm solo and the extra meal is available, it means maybe one more coach passenger gets seated for dinner... I like that Idea, since when I'm traveling in coach I am always wondering if I will get a dinner seating! So far, I always have when I wanted to -...

If I book a 2 zone roomette trip and there will be another person sharing the accommodation, do I need to get their name put on the reservation as well as my own? I ask because I am planning the trip and it is not definite I will have a companion, but we both hope so! Asking it the other way...

I just rolled up to 40,078 with this month's card statement. I am cooking up a trip for this fall, maybe around the end of October. It will be a two-zone roomette round trip from BOS to the West Coast (coach BOS-TOL/TOL-BOS and the sleeper awards on the other end)... probably something along...

Hotel 31, on 31st street, is the most affordable decent place I've seen. Not too far from NYP. Go walking on the High Line, costs nothing and is both arty and historic. Runs for about 15 blocks between 14th or 15 street, to 30th. We recently walked to GCT from there, so NYP is considerably...

Mods: Feel free to merge with the other thread about this...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/us/as-amtrak-aid-ends-states-face-decision-on-local-routes.html?hp

For my last year stationed at the Sub-base (I was in the band...) I shared a beach cottage with 3 other guys, year round... it was $90/mo total for the 4 of us... we each got a monthly housing allowance more than our share of the rent, and we were right on the ocean! Party Central for the Sub...

I think the fact of waiting for late Eastbound Western trains instead of serving a specific Ohio corridor makes perfect sense. Even though some states help with costs, Amtrak is supposed to be a national railway, right?

Counting the days, hours, minutes and seconds leading up to my discharge from the U.S. Navy (less than a month away). Trains were the furthest thing from my mind - the day after I got out I began hitch-hiking from Westerly RI to San Francisco (Made it in 3.5 days... slightly longer than if I had...

I've done this... it does work. As mentioned, let staff know... maybe you can meet the sleeping car attendant early...

Wow! Amazing that the car spanning the gap is still upright....

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Well of course anything can happen... but it seems unlikely you'd meet someone who was free to travel for several days with you on a spontaneous itinerary. But ... I'd say if your own plans take you on some long-distance routes the odds are very good of making friends with someone you meet in...