Recent content by Bierboy

Again...the only thing I blame Amtrak for is very poor customer service including — 1) Withholding information from customers 2) Inadequate staffing of both phone lines AND locations where passengers transferred to buses 3) Failure to anticipate the domino effects of poor weather that was...

Sorry...this has been an incredible disappointment for my wife and me. And it's not just the issues of flooding; we understand that. It's the poor way Amtrak has handled its customers. They knew darn good and well what was going to happen way before they notified us. We went through busing from...

Well, here we go again...our three day trip from LA (5/31) to CHI (6/3) on the Eagle has been canceled with barely 24 hours notice. "Due to a service disruption"...baloney. I've been monitoring the TE eastbound the last several days, and have seen minimal delays despite all the crap in the...

That’s odd. I follow Amtrak on Twitter and don’t see that post anywhere. EDIT: I see it now on Amtrak Alerts.

On a sleeper on the SW Chief (train 3) that is about an hour out of Chicago and they say flooding is forcing us off the train at KC after 10 pm arrival and onto busses. Busing us somewhere (SCA didn’t know how far) and then we’ll board an identical consist for the rest of the trip to LA. Any...

This, however, is far from certain. The last sentence in the Amtrak portion of the story... "House and Senate Republican leaders said they planned to talk over whether to continue funding the train as the session progresses."

Excellent suggestion. We just booked a five-night trip to the SW from IND for next spring. Canada should be next on our itinerary...

I certainly understand the present-day limitations the original dome cars would have. But my observation (no pun intended) still stands -- there is nothing like the original dome cars for a beautiful, nearly unlimited view/

The SSLs are such a poor excuse for a dome car. Absolutely no comparison. I really miss the Vista Domes of the Northern Pacific...

The SAS station is no picnic either...unless they've renovated/updated in the past five years... .

Dream on...

Well, boo frickin hoo...lives were lost because of a CSX screwup. Let them wait...

Great article today in the Indy Star -- https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2018/02/08/carmel-teens-spent-9-days-train-traveling-through-small-town-america-little-cell-service-wifi-heres/308854002/

Bostian now facing manslaughter charges... https://apnews.com/1773b0ed612f4be5858d37afc6848c83/Charges-reinstated-vs.-Amtrak-engineer-in-Philadelphia-crash