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How could I have forgotten to mention the Magnolia Room? It was truly (well, maybe not truly "truly") the highlight of New Orleans....

We had three nights in NOL (2 1/2 days - the Crescent leaves at the unholy hour of 7 AM). We didn't research what to do, so i don't know if this is the best option, but we did ride the St Charles trolley out to the garden district (past Loyola and Tulane Universities) and back (1.25 each way...

General Impressions: Service: Excellent. I've never met an unpleasant Amtrak employee who wasn't willing to go out of his/her way to help. One would expect that, somewhere among the SCA's, dining car staff and lunge attendants there must be a rotten apple. But I didn't meet a single one...

Fifth (and last, not including NEC) leg - The Crescent New Orleans - New York Scenery: Okay, so I groused about the barren stretches on the Sunset Limited, so i suppose i can't grouse about the verdant stretches of the Crescent - where we couldn't see anything except trees on both sides of...

Fourth Leg - Sunset LImited Los Angeles - New Orleans Scenic Highlights: (stay with me here, I'm desperately trying to find some....) Desert - especially the starker terrain of West Texas -- can be impressive, but it needs some serious editing (or a mag-lev train). There's far too much of...

Third Leg - Coast Starlight I'm still loving traveling by train. And this one was actually on time arriving in LA. The sleeper rattled more but folded pieces of notebook paper jammed in the rattling door to the adjacent compartment solved that one. (Traveling tip: include sheets of paper to...

Second Leg - The Empire Builder In short, not bad. Not bad at all. We left bout 40 minutes late - the equipment was slow to arrive.and then got stuck behind a Metra commuter train for a bit, but we weren't expecting on time at all points to begin with, so it didn't bother us. THings got...

First Leg (The Lake Shore Limited) It was a very easy trip. 3 hour bus trip Boston to Albany, 4 hours waiting for train in Albany since our bus didn't make any intermediate stops, and a train that left on time and arrived in Chicago within an hour of on time. (Okay, it was about 40 minutes...

That was Plan A when we decided to make this our next trip, two years ago - especially since my other daughter (and, more importantly, my granddaughter) lived in the Orlando area at the time. We waited an extra year hoping Amtrak and the local municipalities could come to an agreement. IN the...