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Wow, my wife and I rode that train just a few days before as we went to our daughter's wedding.

I don't care much about greenness, carbon footprint or unions, but I can't stand air travel or long distance car travel. Not only that, most likely airline employees and highway workers are probably unionized also. For me the train is part of my vacation rather than a vehicle to get to my...

Well, I wrote to my rep last night in support of passenger rail in general and Amtrak in particular.

It really annoys me that often Republicans do such idiotic posturing when it comes to passenger rail and I say this as a conservative. Though to be fair, pro/anti Amtrak sentiment isn't necessarily confined to one party. They don't mind throwing tons of money at airlines and highways, with...

My wife and I taking the Silver Star to our daughter's wedding and have booked a roomette. I'm concerned about how much room there will be. Do you think we should be concerned.

I have rarely ever had concerns about cleanliness of Amtrak trains except for the windows.

I look at it the way you stated in your last sentence. My wife and I had a fine trip from CT to Oklahoma City a few days ago, but the last return leg was very late due to a storm. On the other hand, a couple of years ago we went to Florida with a stop on the return trip in the Carolinas to...

Thank you for your great post! We had a great trip from Meriden, CT to OKC a few years ago to visit our son and daughter in law who, at the time, lived in Norman, OK. Those botanical gardens are very nice; they have an bewildering variety of plants, and this is coming from an amateur botanist...

Funny, I thought of that book immediately when I read the post about abominable pre-Amtrak service. I don't think some of the railroads were ethical in the way they sought to end passenger service, but I sympathize with their plight.

Not too relevant but I wish I had a manual; however when we ought our new car we compromised. My wife got the automatic transmission and I got the two door model (Toyota Yaris).

I'm not surprised that motor cycles aren't allowed. I'm not sure how no one noticed a guy putting a motorcycle on the train.

A year or so ago, a guy and (I'm guessing) his son got on a Metro North train in New Haven. The teen brought a bike up the stairs and onto the train and held the door open for quite awhile. I couldn't believe that the man finally got onto the train with a motorcycle after lugging it up those...

I will only go long distances by train unless I have to go another way. My wife enjoys the train especially when we get a sleeper. though she would just as soon fly. We have a sleeper booked to Florida both ways for our daughter's wedding in July. When my daughter and her fiance were talking...

I was amazed when I lived in SC near the NS mainland that so many cars tried to beat the train. Now I'm in Connecticut where there a lot of trains but never see people being foolish trying to beat the train.

NHV is a nice station but I think it is going to be upgraded in the future. I'm a bit surprised by this because, other than the floor which can use some fixing, the station is quite attractive. I go through there several times a year.

I'm hoping that Orlando service in place in July. My daughter is getting married in Sarasota during the month of July and I'm mighty tempted to make it to Orlando to ride Brightline. We are riding Amtrak to Sarasota, though from Orlando to Sarasota, its a bus. I think I would have to drive...

I would like to take Acela sometime. I've seen it go trough Milford, CT where my daughter lives and that thing really books it! Thankfully, living in Meriden, CT we can go Amtrak, Metro North and CT rail.

I wouldn't assign it all of the anti-Amtrak talk to the far right; as Carl Fowler related to me a couple of years ago that the idea that Democrats as a group are pro-Amtrak and Republicans are against it is not necessarily true. There are exceptions on both sides. As an example, he didn't have...

There is a Lancaster & Chester Railroad museum in Lancaster, SC. The L & C was known as "The Springmaid Line". I used to live in Lancaster and went to the museum. There waere a lot of memorabilia and artifacts in it, but no train cars or locomotives on the grounds.

Years ago we lived in Blacksburg, SC would stop there almost every time on the way back from visiting family in New Bern, NC. It was a great place to visit with my wife and three preteen kids. Once we took the little train ride behind the 44-tonner.