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If we're talking about LA to Bay Area service, I would like to see service to San Francisco and not just San Jose, Oakland, Emeryville, etc. I'm not particularly interested in additional service up to Seattle. There's already a train from California to Seattle. There's zero Amtrak service to San...

You had me at "Broadway Limited":) Certainly the idea of a through branch attaching to the Capitol Limited has been discussed in the PRIAA's before. They can certainly just keep the current Pennsylvanian schedule or even better adjust the current Pennsylvanian to reduce the gap between the...

I'm more interested in a Desert Wind.

19K passengers in 2019 transferred at Pittsburgh. I'd have to think most of them would be between the Capitol Limited and the Pennsylvanian. 19% of CL passengers transferred to "State supported and NEC services". Now that could also include passengers at Washington. The last time I traveled to...

Amen to that!

How about that route to Cincinnati and then to Indianapolis and Chicago?

If they have the man power but not the sleepers, forget the sleepers. I'd rather a second train to Florida than no train.

They should just extend the Palmetto to Miami in the meantime.

In coach you have to sit next to a stranger. In a sleeper, you have to pay an arm and a leg (probably more like an arm and two legs). If I could find a sucker willing to travel with me, I would. But I can't.

I never got off the train but I saw the outside of the Toledo Ohio station and it didn't look pretty. It was during the graveyard shift (CL Westbound) and I didn't really sleep well so my memory could have been fuzzy.

I rode on the Capitol Limited back on 8/14. There was no observation lounge car, just a regular lounge car for serving food and passengers were told seating was only for paying customers only. It made the ride seem more like a plane trip than a train trip. I thing one of the lounge people said...

They don't get ice and snow in Colorado? I thought snow was very common there, in fact don't they have a "ski train"?

One thing to watch out for is snow. ice, and cold can delay trains and I'm guessing the California Zephyr would be one that would especially be susceptible. I remember taking the Lake Shore Limited and a train that was supposed to arrive in New York around 6:30pm arrived after midnight.

How about affordability?

To my knowledge the Three Rivers (1996-2005) never had a diner car. AU endlessly complains about food and dining. I'm sure there are people who avoided it like the plague and would rather take that other train that was 8 hours longer just because it had a diner. If AU could be happy with an...

If there is a 2nd LSL, the priority should be to give Cleveland and Toledo service outside of the graveyard shift. Something that has been discussed in the past is to go via Michigan instead of South Bend and give Michigan passengers a one seat ride to New York as well as connect Toledo and...

I found out about a new rail advocacy group called the Lakeshore Rail Alliance. Seven rail organizations are joining together including All Aboard Ohio. The lead group is All Aboard Erie. Advocates Push for Increased Lakeshore Route Service - Railway Age Lakeshore Rail Alliance Website: Home |...

The Horseshoe Curve scenery is great but if I'm heading to Chicago and west I usually go through New York or DC because the connection is at better times than at Pittsburgh and the stations are way nicer.

I've been from Pennsylvania to California three times: 1997, 2001/02, and 2015. In 1997 and 2001/02, I took the Three Rivers and Southwest Chief both ways, stopping in Chicago both times at least once if not twice. In 2002, I also remember taking the San Joaquin and then the buses between LA...

The other favorite game is adding new trains which requires more equipment which is already in short supply and even more staff and even more money. It's like when I say Amtrak should cut certain trains to add others. Sure, the idealist would say why not just add them? We all know the answer to...