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When traveling out of Emeryville CA to, say, Los Angeles or Chicago, I often book the 20-minute Amtrak bus connection from downtown San Francisco to Emeryville, which is shown as a separate trip leg on the ticket. The bus driver scans the ticket when you board. I sometimes wonder if I end up not...

301 this morning arrived at intermediate stations a total of 32 minutes early and still arrived at St. Louis 16 minutes early. What does this suggest for a possible future schedule? Taking into account the 32 minutes of dwell time at the 4 intermediate stations and factoring in the 16" early...

Refurbished dorm car on westbound Empire Builder 2 weeks ago. It also had a refurbished coach.

With a few exceptions this really hasn't been picked up by the press, but when it is it may not be pretty. In Chicago, ABC7 has a reporter at Union Station interviewing stranded passengers who say they are not getting good answers from Amtrak. We can assume thousands of passengers have now had...

Not to mention delicious Basque food.

I just got an email and voice mail message stating my Tuesday April 5 trip from San Francisco to Chicago on the California Zephyr has been cancelled. But that’s a day the train is supposed to operate and the reservation site says space is still available that day. Something strange is going on...

Interesting article with great photos, but the idea that passenger service faded away and was abandoned is rubbish. Amtrak's Michigan service flourished in the 1970's and 1980's with the introduction of TurboLiner and Amfleet equipment and additional train frequencies. Amtrak and the city of...