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Thanks for everybody help. The agent knew what I needed to get an open sleeper ticket.

On my next trip in May I have a unique issue. The friend I have traveling with is only going halfway on the trip. I am connecting from the SWC to the CS on the same day. How should I handle making the reservation? The full trip is more then four seqments allowed on the multi city screen on the...

Thanks for everyone's input on hotels in Burbank. On my next trip I am looking at getting off the Starlight at San Jose and need a hotel that is in the middle of the price range.

I am starting on plans for a trip next May. On one day I will riding the Starlight from SAC to Burbank. What are some good hotels near the train station for one night?

Another reason is due to the extreme heat when the host RR lowers the max speed limit to avoid damages from sun kinks.

The part of the Chief that used to use the former Santa Fe east of Galesburg IL. I rode it back in 1986. Also the former Santa Fe though Pasadena CA also on the same trip.

It is a larger bathroom that has baby changing table and other thing mothers need to attend to a baby's needs.

Room 5 is one of the best in the car . It is close the upstairs bathroom and has less noise then either end of the car.

Depending on the car rental company you might get a ride from the train station to the rental office in the morning.

I called this trip in to the Amtrak rewards phone number to do my reservation. Would that effect the connection?

If you do a reservation with rewards point and have a connection, is it a Guaranteed connection? I have a trip upcoming with a connection from the Chief to the River Runner.

When doing a booking with points what is the difference between the two amount of points on the top of each section of travel? I have been traveling for fiveteen years collecting points  Looking at taken a trip to St Louis and Chicago next month. Any info and help would be helpful. 

They are in the rooms. These trains use Viewliners. The toilets are like RV style and have a cover.

On my last trip about a year ago the orders from the table from us got mixed up and I got to try one. I though it was going to be no good, but finishing most of it I enjoyed it. My fellow traveler did not like it at all. The waiter fixed our order and got us angus burgers.

On one trip the HF was late enough getting in FTW to not make the connection to the Eagle. The passengers going south were taken all the way to Temple to catch the Eagle. Me and a few other passengers were taken off the HF at Gainesville and taken by taxi to Dallas to make the northbound connection.

Baltimore and Ohio railroad started doing sleeper passenger meals in the 1960's

BNSF has been running these for quite some time on the transcon.

Several stations on that list have either a train three times a week or have daily service in the early morning/late evening.

Another reason is the SD train are much shorter. The crew of the Heartland Flyer call it a racecar.

Back to the Emporia Kansas topic after the station closed in 1996, it was destroyed by fire in 1999.