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Hi everyone. I've been mostly lurking on this forum for years but we finally (mostly) booked our big Amtrak adventure. We're taking the City of New Orleans from New Orleans to Chicago, then spending the night, then taking the Capitol Limited over to DC, then spending several days, then ending...

Hi everyone. I know this has probably been talked about a million times before but can someone please explain to me in very simple words how I can best make use of the fact we're taking a very train-heavy trip to the northeast over Christmas? We already have an AGR account but it's been mostly...

Hi! We are at long last (I think) ready to book our Christmas trip (12/18 to 12/30) to DC. We live in a small town in Florida but will be leaving and returning via New Orleans (family is there to watch our new car and we plan to see them upon our return). We take the train every couple of...

Hi everyone. I think I've posted before about this trip before but I do think it will finally happen. There are three of us. Our daughter will be a freshman in high school. We can travel from December 17 to about NYE. We want to leave from New Orleans and return to New Orleans. We need to...

I doubt you're missing anything. We like it because it runs on time basically. Our other reasons will probably paint us as amateurs but it's things like the fact it's a Superliner. It never seems that crowded. I admit that I'm not an expert on Amtrak. Our travel obsession is Walt Disney...

Hi! We (my husband, 13 year old special needs daughter, my mother-in-law, and myself) will be traveling on the City of New Orleans the day before Thanksgiving from NOL to Memphis. My family (not including the mil) will be returning on the same train the day after Thanksgiving. We have two...

Oh - and I wanted to add - it is the Sunset. We live within miles of its route in Florida. It's a major issue to have to drive to New Orleans to take it and we tentatively have our next trip scheduled on the Sunset (spring 2009 to California - we love to travel). Fortunately, we have family...

Thanks. That's a great suggestion. We looked into it and because our SUV is a green monster - an Envoy extended length - we would pay almost $500 for the car, plus gas back and forth to NYC, plus lots of parking as we want to stay downtown in both places. So it doesn't make sense this trip...

Hi! This is my first post although we're not new to Amtrak. We (me, husband, and our soon to be 13 year old) have taken several trips on Amtrak over the years. We live in a part of Florida no longer serviced by trains due to the storm so we haven't taken as many trips as of late. For...