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Not only would you miss the Mississippi River, you would need to run south on the UP (ex-Rock Island Spine Line) to Owatonna, which is about 40 miles west of Rochester; then head east through Rochester to Winona to regain the route. This routing would add at least two hours to the running time...

We liked the Courtyard by Marriott-City Center in Portland. Two stops south of the Amtrak station on the MAX green/yellow line trains.

I don't think it is the drink that bothers the OP - it is the story (or lie) from the attendant. I was recently traveling with my wife on an oversold flight. Checking my reservation the day before (but not checking in online) we both had seat assignments on an MD90 aircraft. Upon arrival at...

Amtrak's booking system treats 49 and 449 as separate trains despite the fact they run together for most of their distance. The price difference you are seeing comes from the fact that the cars for one section are closer to being sold out - the price generally rises as the number of available...

Thanks for all the details. Nice to know the meals on the Albany-Boston segment are more than a snack. We are heading east from Chicago on Saturday (arriving Sunday) and depart westbound on the following Friday. I will add the earplugs to my "train kit" of duct tape, string, and a few binder...

Mrs. lyke99 and I will be traveling to Boston on the Lake Shore Limited in a few months and I was wondering what the meals for sleeping car passengers are like east of Albany. Thanks in advance!

Interesting to see the Portland section of the Empire Builder has been mentioned twice already. I would nominate Matt Norwood who worked as our SCA on the Portland section of the EB earlier this summer. Friendly and available when you needed him and took extra steps to make our trip special.

The Viewliners are newer than the Amfleets. The sleepers are not replacements, they are to augment the current fleet. The dining and baggage cars are to replace heritage fleet cars. The baggage-dorms are for getting crew out of rooms in the Viewliner sleepers. Since sleeping car passengers...

The veggie burger is a black bean chipotle veggie patty. I'm generally a meat lover but this veggie patty is very tasty. I agree the veggie burger is very tasty - at the suggestion of a server, I got it with bacon! How about getting your hands on the the calorie counts for each of the...

It is also good to see in the Rochester Post-Bulletin after the decade of "You'll run coal trains through here over our dead bodies, but we would like high-speed passenger trains if you can have them stop at the airport rather than downtown." attitude of the city leaders. The author did make an...

We had room E for both overnight legs of our honeymoon trip earlier this month - no noise from the coffee station that I could hear. Perhaps we had fellow travelers who knew to keep it down if they were getting coffee before 6:00am or so when I would wake up.

My wife and I rode these cars on the Friends of the 261's fall colors run along the Mississippi River last year behind SP 4449. They are beautiful cars.

I see that the eastbound Empire Builder left Grand Forks 17 minutes late this morning, but suffered a service disruption before reaching Fargo. Anyone know what happened?

I'd have to agree. I just took my wife on her first long train trip - she compared our Superliner bedrooms to camping. Lots of living functions in a small space similar to a tent. We very much enjoyed the service from the SCAs and dining car crews and the privacy, when we wanted it. We will...

It is my personal opinion that Amtrak is the target because of it's political impact. If you live in a place with little or no service, most people haven't have ridden Amtrak, but everyone has heard of it. Cutting Amtrak seems like "doing something" - especially to people with little or no...

I just did a round trip on the Empire Builder and our sleeping car did have the toilets stop working during our crossing of Marias Pass. The SCA reset the system and all was working fine for the rest of the trip. Total outage was time was about 10 minutes. This issue was only on our car (each...

The Wedding Charter was great - F7 for power, chapel car, dining car, and ex-L&N tavern-lounge 3003. Fun experience for us and our four dozen guests. As for the possibility of going coach, we've decided we're too old for that on overnight journeys.

Glad to hear there were no injuries. Is there a lounge car in the train? If not, what are they going to do about food service for the rest of the trip?

I'll be contacting Amtrak to praise Matt and some of the other great employees we encountered - they should hear about the good stuff happening out on the road. I'll also be contacting my members of Congress to let them know Amtrak needs steady sources of both operating and capital funding...

After our wedding the week before on a chartered train in Spooner, Wisconsin, my bride and I were dropped off at the Winona, MN depot for our Amtrak Adventure/Honeymoon trip on Tuesday June 29. The train pulled in on time and after the crew change and smoke break, the train pulled its Portland...