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Just as I feared. :mad: Maybe, instead of taking the train, I can start to look into intercity stage coaches. :rolleyes:

To me, the only really appropriate way to show your appreciation, or dissatisfaction, is with your tip amount. One really should not be belly aching here. That's because it reeks with revenge. Especially, when one feels they need to smear that employee's name publically here. Sorry...

Is Spartanburg, SC, now closed? The Amtrak website still says that it suppose to have a waiting room that is open from 11pm to 6am, in support northbound and southbound Cresents. My kid has making his first solo LD trip. He got dropped off at the Spartanburg station around 11pm, but the...

My worry would be that roughly starting now, "traditional" dining will be using up the left overs found deep in cupboards and pantries, some of which haven't been opened in years.

I guess I am in the minority, in that I don't like to eat the exact same thing for both lunch and diner, on the same day. :eek: I would much prefer being offered a nice sandwich or sub for lunch, than a diner entrée repeat. I mean, at least offer for lunch, what they sell in the Café or...

No Rail Road French Toast No Angus Burger And from the sample menu in post #1, no lunch. :(

Since so many non-PA people here are supporting doubling the trains running in PA, I would purpose adding a $500 surcharge onto every ticket sold anywhere by Amtrak, and direct that surcharge to funding the additional trains in PA. Seems more fair than expecting me to help fund it.

The newer busses which are being heralded as being the best for wheelchair accessibility, still don't really offer much. Here is a state-of-the-art design, which simply restricts wheelchair passengers to the lower level vestibule.

Amtrak might not what the responsibility either. All Amtrak needs is for the tracks to be blocked, for any reason you can dream up, and passengers would need to weather the storm on board the stranded train.

In reading that story, one could exchange the terms "Amtrak board member" with "Congressional member", and it would still ring true. ;)

I thought it was always that way, and how they implemented crude bucket pricing within the available limitations? One goes to book a roomette, you get the lowest priced roomette, which is #12 fixed priced at $650. Once that is booked, the next passenger will get roomette #5 fixed priced at...

I was one of those stuck on a non-moving Silver for 24+ hours, several years ago. After finally getting the tracks clear the next day, we started moving, only stopping again a short time later because the crew timed out. We stopped in the middle of a swamp. Sorry, IMHO, Amtrak needs to...

All you'll need is for a minor to start yelling "help! help! these are not my parents!", because you didn't buy them ice cream. Yes, definitely, have a letter from the parents.

So, did GrandLuxe Rail Journeys shutdown because they generated way too much revenue? For example, GrandLuxe Rail Journeys hitched a few restored, old time luxury cars onto the end of Amtrak's Silvers running up/down the East Coast.

The only extras that are included with any sleeper accommodations, beyond food and (soft) drink, is use of the lounges, if the stations you are using even offer it. I don't think Amtrak offers bulk shipping anymore. Any furniture and moving boxes you want to bring along, would need to fit into...

I am not sure why the additional security is being portrayed here as bad. I would guess that the first trigger for additional screening is that the card was not physically presented, and the card's "chip" was not read. The new credit card rules have that the merchant has to "eat" any fraud...

From what I have been reading, those signing up for a legal settlement with Equifax for $125, will probably never see most of it. The number of people settling for the cash payment option, has already exceeded the available funds put up by Equifax.

For the most part, these LD trains you are talking about aren't new service. Same-oh, same-oh, doesn't get the focus of attention as much as something that is brand new. A good example is that Allentown PA (the 3rd largest city in the commonwealth) now has official Amtrak service. True, its...

True that one is never required to tip anyone; be it the LSA, the SCA, the red cap, the cabbie, the waitstaff, the bell hop, and so on. To me, it is that the OP is looking for validation from us (me?) to go ahead and stiff people who provide them a personal service. Sorry, folks, but I am...

l For the Silvers, I thought this happens every day. For each Silver, there is today's train and there is yesterday's train, on the tracks. One just leaving its starting point, and the other closing in on its destination. Checking today's map, there is actually two 1092's. One departing...