Recent content by AmarilloByMornin

I made a trip from FTW to SJC 2 weeks ago and returned exactly the reverse a few days ago. I was lucky to have very good SCAs on all trains! Maybe not so much lucky because since 1993 I've only had a couple of mediocre ones. This evening I went to file praise reports for all of them and got...

Escuse my confusion. I thought they wanted a covid test. 24 hours won't do it for anyone. Sue me.

Don't know where you are, but that's not available here. They're actually aggravated that I've gone for testing 6 times in the last year. If I wake up with a sore throat I go, if I have a fever of more than 98 I go. I went to get antibody testing at my own expense and was disappointed I didn't...

If you believe everyone answers the questions truthfully then I'm glad I've never traveled with you.

Because I can't GET the data in less than24 hours where I live. Congratulations that you live somewhere you can get it. I don't. I stayed home the last 24 hours. It doesn't guarantee my partner didn''t contact it. We rented a car to take us 350 miles to the closest station. Maybe you elitists...

This came this afternoon less than 24 hours before my first Amtrak flight in about three years. Scared the hell out of me. It said I needed to get this done withing 24 hours of my trip; I thought it was requiring me to take another Covid-19 test. Which I had no time to take, I live six hours...

Something of an aspie here so it's much more comfortable in my roomette. The times I've risked it have been mixed; but for some reason foreign visitors have been very rewarding Yet there have been other near-disasters, particularly from people who evangelize their political views. I don't get...

I did a small circle, my first solo trip, about 5 years ago: DFW-LAX on the Eagle/Sunset; LAX-EMY on the Starlight;; EMY-CHI on the CZ; CHI-DFW on the Eagle. I also did a FTW to CHI to LAX (Eagle); to SJC (Coast) back to LAX; to FTW (Sunset/Eagle). Is this a figure 8? An ovewl? I've done a...

Same here. It's too hard to lug my carry-ons upstairs. I don't need the accessible room, a roomette is fine, I just want it downstairs.

I've mostly traveled by myself for about the last 5 or so years and I'm fine with it. There's no way I'd pass up a train trip either way. But I admit that when I see something wonderful I always wish I could share it right then. I take photos but they're nothing like actually seeing it.

Thank you for posting this. I didn't realize The SL had the equipment at SAS to do this but I suppose if the #2 terminates there, it's pretty easy for the #1 to originate there. I love passenger rail but rarely think about the logistics.

It's been several years since I've been to Longview, maybe as many as 7 or 8. I don't deny it's not a pretty station, it was more comfortable sitting outside. But soul-less, no, at least not when I was there. The station master was very helpful - and charming. I've been lucky to encounter many...

Wasn't me, you're absolutely right. I'd prefer to be downstairs every time, very difficult for me to drag my carry-ons upstairs. But no way to request it online. I don't want the disability bedroom, just downstairs roomettes, almost never available online.

I did the same. Just praying they don't reinstitute the restrictions and service reductions; due to the current resurgence of Covid (Delta, Lambda, whatever). Praying harder that these variants diminish and die. I haven't seen my granddaughter in 4 years and don't want to expose her but I miss...

Take a look at 1/421 and 2/422. They only inconvenience the freights 3x weekly