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A good source says it's going back to Albany tonight on 48(13). Boooo!!! Was hoping to ride this weekend -- one of the rare weekends out of the summer we had no travel plans booked. Oh well.

Whats the occasion? MI Assoc of RR passengers get together?

That would be a nice "rumor" if it comes true! Amtrak attempted to run the Great Dome 10031 Ocean View on 3 roundtrips each of the Cardinal in 2010, 2011, and 2012. I say attempted because of mechanical problems and severe winter weather/storms it only made about half the scheduled runs...

No... Ocean View has not been run for an axle count on the CN to Carbondale... they use baggage cars for that. However... Amtrak has run "Ocean View" out of Chicago on various IL corridor trains over the last five years. It's been few and far between -- but mostly in the fall months around...

Yep... A friend coming in on #4 yesterday saw it and told me. Wonder where its headed next. We saw it in the New Orleans yards on May 2nd. I figured it was sitting there after the Inspection Train and would be going back to LA. Guess not. It would be nice if it made an appearance on some Midwest...

Sounds like one can predict (at least for the immediate future) which trainsets will not have the Parlour Car. It was missing from our #14(05) --- which then turned as #11(07) --- which turned as the above poster's #14(09). If this rotation continues through mid-May 2016 here, the following...

Exactly. Take what was said with a grain of salt. We just happened to be walking by the construction entrance in the Great Hall just as two contractors were leaving. They let us peek our heads inside, but would not allow photos. It's looking nice (workers were working on the staircase between...

Maybe Amtrak should pull all the Sightseer Lounges... seems like there is something in the air in these cars that cause employees to slouch and play with their cell phones... and Trails & Rails volunteers to fall asleep mid-narration.

Nice photo there!!! Almost as good as the one I took in 2008 of both Trails & Rails docents falling asleep in the SSL while they were supposed to narrate on the Empire Builder through Glacier, but boy, did they certainly wake up when it was time for their free steak dinners. Anyhow, I am...

There was one server in the dining half of car -- she was cleaning tables, seating people, taking orders, serving food, taking money, etc. Occasionally someone who was dressed in a cook's outfit (checkered pants and white shirt) would come up and help her out by bringing meals to people's...

I am curious... has anyone recently rode on or have seen Pacific Parlour Car #39974? After a trip on the Coast Starlight earlier this week, I went back and looked at my photos since 2009 of Coast Starlight trips. I have been on about 10 runs -- and have never gotten this car. I am wondering if...

We were supposed to ride from LAX-SLM on #14(5) and then SLM-LAX on #11(6). When we got out to the platform, we noticed #14(5) did not have a PPC and a second SSL was substituted. I had my sources check and confirm #11(6) was going to have a PPC -- and when I found out it likely would -- we...

The last day for the old lounge will be Sunday, June 12th. The new lounge opens on Monday, June 13th. Confirmed by several Amtrak sources yesterday.

We rode #29 from CHI-WAS last week as part of an 11-day cross-country rail trip. The food service on the Capitol with the Cross Country Cafe was about the worst of anywhere. First, since we live near Chicago, we arrived at Union Station shortly before boarding. Dinner reservations are taken in...

Saw it on Sunday... coming in on #22... it was Santa Lucia Highlands Car #39973. I posted about it too in an earlier thread. Someone said it was going back to LAX from Beech Grove. Hopefully soon as we have a round-trip on the Starlight planned during the latter part of next week. The PPC is the...

I am not sure what all is done service-wise on the northbound Texas Eagle (Train #22) in St. Louis, but it seems like maybe a re-fuel and a change of engineer/conductors and that is all. Shouldn't really be more than a 20-30 minute stop, I'd imagine. It is built in the schedule for a 36 minute...

We will be leaving on our last big cross-country AGR zone redemption trip in a few days. 11 days, coast-to-coast and then some, 7,475 miles and 8 nights all in deluxe bedrooms. Our trip includes #14 LAX-SLM and #11 SLM-LAX during the first week of May. A big part of that was to increase our...

I am not in favor of large companies like America by Rail or other groups buying out almost every single sleepers in the summer the second they go on sale so they jack up the price for everyone. Something had to be done about that. But as I said earlier on in this thread, this new policy isn't...

I don't think the issue is so black and white --- yes, it's possibly good news for the individual traveler because there will be more space available, but if you enjoy traveling with a group, or heck, are even part of a railroad club who does charters -- it could be really bad news for you --...

Sad to hear Amtrak had decided not to publish national timetables anymore. Egh, I never really used them all that much... but was able to collect the complete collection since the first one... including the rare one that only a few thousand of were printed in the mid-1980's. I had a few folks...