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Thanks, to both of you.

Asking before our Heartland Flyer RT in January. The cafe car supposedly has comfortable couch seating for watching the scenery glide by [paraphrasing AMTRAK publication]. What is the snack fare? Is the coffee potable? Are the couches comfortable? Actually, do they exist? We will...

Yes, we will be transferring of course. We know the FW station and would only worry about the walk if there were an ice storm - although our combined age is 150. While we have never transferred to the Flyer before we had seen the shuttle used by others. But we did not know that simply being...

We have a RT Austin to OKC in January and Aus-Chi in June. I will look for improvements... meanwhile I will be following this forum closely.

We have found that easily the best sleeping arrangement is to have two roomettes across from each other. For seniors, at least, when you can get them by ordering two at the same time they cost less than twice one roomette and less than a bedroom or family bedroom. We travel together but...

Exactly! I apologizefor my careless reading of the previous thread.

The food is awful until San Antonio so I would consider beginning the trip there.

421 at FW is the way to stay in the same car at San Antonio. You will have a through reservation to LAX. But you will not be in the same car as your brother unless he books the 421 from San Antonio - right? Is the goal to get enough sleep or to be in the same car? Obviously you can visit all...

That video was instructive. Thanks. Seems the new cars have a serious downgrade of comfort.

I have a use it or lose it voucher which I will have to "combine" with points in some way. However, the way I will combine it is to use the voucher on spousal R/T tix AUS to FTW and one points ticket for a fam member at the same time. Mixing on any single ticket would be a loser.

Do the airlines still actively lobby against pasenger rail? Does freight rail lobby against passenger rail? Who are the constituent opponents of passenger rail?

Southbound, Austin to San Antonio is ridiculously slow, averaging about 20 MPH.

We rode the Capitol Limited, DC to Chi, from Friday afternoon May 31 until Saturday morning June 1 in a family bedroom. First, the good news. Cliff, our attendant, was terrific. Now, the bad news. The bunk/mattress combo in the family bedroom [room 15] was hard as a rock. We have ridden in...

We left Chicago on time Saturday morning and were slightly ahead of schedule when we reached east Texas Sunday morning for the bustitution. We arrived at Fort Worth ahead of the scheduled time as the bus hit no significant traffic until Arlington. However, the TE turnaround in FW occurred...

We will be riding June 1-2 out of Chicago to Austin and received email notification of the bustitution from Longview to FtW. We briefly thought of canceling and flying, but God, we hate airports enough to prefer a mere five hour bus ride. Can we expect the cafe to be open and fully...

End of May my wife and I are returning home from DC to Austin by Capitol Limited [fam BR] and Eaglette [2 roomettes]. We will pack some food out of Union Station DC and from the Jersey Mike's in Chicago if the connection is timely. We have tentatively decided to rely on the cafe rather than...

Based on Bob Dylan's response above the hole in the fence may have been repaired. I am tempted to drive over and check.

It's not that long a walk! Unless you follow the street, that is.

When you go to the "roomette" to secure it at the bottom of the box is the number of roomettes you want which defaults to "1". You can click on it and add a second - but not always!

Re: fares. We have found that booking two roomettes is almost always cheaper than booking a full bedroom and sometimes cheaper than the family bedroom because our second roomette is about 2/3 the price of the first one. Is that because we are seniors or is that true for everyone? Re...