Recent content by arubafanatic

I am transferring to the Pere Marquette from the Texas Eagle and my checked bag is a large 30 inch or so piece of luggage that's too heavy and big for the overhead. Can I take this on the Pere Marquette. How can I handle the bag?

My 7 year old will be with me, so he doesn't need the head space. But the picture helps immensely. I figure I need the 24 in carry on for all of the carry on crap a mother usually has -- including the laptop and extra travel pillows for my lower back, etc.

Unfortunately I am on an uppper 005. This is good to know, so do y'all suggest a backpack for carrying on? :huh:

I'm on the Texas Eagle...I don't know off hand if that's a Superliner or Viewliner...I think it's a superliner.

I'm in a roomette and reviewing the U-tube videos, it looks like a tight squeeze. Is there really room for a 24 in carry-on? And if your are 260lbs or so, will you really be comfortable?

Thanks for the quick response. Breakfast will be the tough one. I'll be in "vacation" mode and not wanting to move around too early, but my son will probably get up early. What time is breakfast? I'll try to remember to brigng some kind of travel alarm clock or set my cell phone alarm or...

Yeah, I'm in the sleeper. I didn't know if was a sit down restaurant or what. Thanks for clearing that up. OK...I thought I read somewhere that you had to make reservations.

Livning in Dallas you guys wouldn't realize, but the the local train runs on the same tracks as Amtrak, so you can take the local DART -Dallas Area Rapid Transit - like 2 stops to the west end and there are restaurants out the wazoo there and the trains run every 20 minutes or so during the...

Do you have to order your food in advance? How does that work exactly? Interested to know.

I'd love to know when in June, since I'll be on the Texas Eagle on the 15th thru the 24th of June.

I'm in the roomette for sure 22 -005. Thanks for the surge protector info, I'll be sure to bring a long one. I live between McKinney and Denton (about 25 miles from downtown). I work in North Dallas and will take the "DART RAIL" to UNION STATION in Dallas, so we wll be totally training it...

I would only vote in the Rep primary to dethrone his chances of winning. I'm not sure where I stand on Sen. Hutchinson for other positions that she holds, so I don't know if I'd vote for her in the general election. But I am glad that she supports a national train network and now that the gas...

I just want them to bring it BACK. Being from NYC, not having trains available makes me CRAZY. I live outside of Dallas and I'm thinking of voting REP just to get rid of Rick Perry. When I first moved here 20 years ago, I had no real reason to go beyond NOL, but now I have a 7 year old and I...

You guys have been so cool. I have the sleeper car with my son and based on all of the advice, I'll make sure I pack a small cooler for us to have for those I-can't-get-a-decent-vegan meal situations. Looking forward to the trip. What else should I bring regarding general travel. Where are...

I'm Dezi. My son and I will be taking the Texas Eagle to Chicago for the first time. I'm originally from the east coast and road Amtrak in college, but I live in TX now where people look at you like you are from Mars for wanting to do such a thing. Any workds of advice before our ttrip in...