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One more puzzle piece - not seeing family bedroom availability on the Cap out of DC after Sept 5 - which gives more weight to the speculation of a single level through train.

Re:5(19) - boarded at Galesburg. The trans dorm was last minute sub for the 32 car and ran as such. Tacked on to end because the regular trans dorm was on the front. No idea about how they accommodated those booked in the 32, other than at least one Denver bound couple was downgraded from...

Just got back from a couple of days at the Hilton Garden/Homewood combo south loop Chicago. While not closest to Union Station, it’s worth considering. Modern glass building with floor to ceiling windows, a block from Roosevelt El/subway as well as Mich Ave, close-by restaurants and a Trader...

Booked CHI-DEN for next summer and was auto assigned to roomette 2 in the 32 car. Before I got around to call to try to move to the base car (31), my reservation was automatically modified to put me in roomette 6 in the 31 car. Here‘s the interesting part: I can make a dummy reservation for...

Apologies for the poor photo from across the river in the rain, but here’s a normal “fun-size” 27 passing the Coyote Wall just east of Bingen this morning.

Greetings. I’m in DC, originally from the home of the PRR’s famous 5.89% incline, and often traveling around the US (Mosier, Ore. this weekend). Started following after becoming a victim of the great sleeper downgrade.

Just watched a combined 7/27 consist arrive Wishram and paced it west to the Dog Mountain trailhead. Fun to see a full-size Amtrak running through the Gorge, even if the circumstances aren’t the best

Looks like bedrooms are available on the 5th from Flagstaff to LA, so one explanation might be that there are group/Amtrak vacation Grand Canyon bookings that got bump priority