Recent content by ChuckL

Thanks Zephyr. I would have never thought about bringing food across the border. Being from Detroit, we often had dinner in Windsor, Ontario and brought our leftovers home. Never had any issues, but we won't tempt fate. 🤭 Maybe we'll have breakfast at the Pan Pacific, have them hold our luggage...

Unrelated to the prior discussions, I would like to know if anyone has been able to check their luggage frim Vancouver, BC to Seattle, WA on the evening train, and can it be checked in the morning after we get off of a cruise ship?i haven't seen mention of it in lieu of the baggage racks and...

Pre-Covid Cascades Service between Seattle and Vancouver BC Schedule Prior to the discontinuation of Cascades service between Seattle and Vancouver BC due to the pandemic, could anyone tell me what the former schedules were like? How many trains were there in each direction, and what were the...

I have no idea what rooms were affected by this; I was in Roomete #8. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the car’s ventilation system was not working when this first started (on rough trackage), There was a power failure in the car a couple hours later, and when the power was restored the...

You couldn’t prove that by my experience. I was well down the hall from the bedrooms and upstairs rest room in roomette 8 when I had my “sensesurround experience.”

I had the same bad experience in a Superliner 1 roomette on the EB in October. The car attendant said it happens frequently. What made matters worse was that the car’s ventilation system wasn’t working. The stench made me so nauseated that I thought I was going to get sick, so I left the car for...

Had a great trip on 354 from Chicago to Dearborn last night. Left on time, no NS or other freight delays at all. Clocked at 109.5 mph on Amtrak track and pretty much on schedule all the way. Ran with a single non-Charger engine and arrived Dearborn only 9 minutes late. This was the best...

Just left Battle Creek 25 minutes late on 351 this morning. Was 12 minutes late leaving Dearborn earlier. Estimate now is only 4 minutes late into Chicago, but I’m only going to believe that once it happens. 354 eastbound pulled into Dearborn at 2 am this morning over 2-1/2 hours late!

Our trivia game was songs about the railroad [emoji577][emoji446] Sent from my iPhone using Amtrak Forum

Stephanie was the name of my SCA and she had been on the job for 28+ years. I just remembered that I had my circular cross county travel notes on my phone that I was going to publish and forgot about. I’m so sorry to hear about your losses in a CA wildfire. Sent from my iPhone using Amtrak Forum

I had a wonderful SCA on #28, the eastbound EB out of Portland that did trivia games with her own prizes she paid for, coffee served all day, a collection of games that could be borrowed as well as a railroad related lending library. She also took feedback on the box dinners out of PDX which had...

A belated thanks for all of the information and link to the video. I’ll check Wikipedia per your suggestion. We’re still in the very early stages of planning the trip. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

We might have a couple of extra days before beginning an Irish tour in 2019. If so, I would like to experience the rail system in Ireland, and we would probably be traveling from Dublin-Belfast and then Belfast-Dublin-Ennis(nearest station to Shannon) to meet our Irish Music tour group. Has...

I was on the Wolverine #354 traveling from CHI-DER in mid November on an Amfleet 1 2/1 Business Cafe Car and it was very cold in business class. Complaints were made to the conductor but they were to no avail. Once we arrived at the BTL station where there was a crew change, the new conductor...

I’ve been trying to get an answer from Amtrak for several weeks now, but have only received a canned response back that a response to my email should be received within 48 hours. Has anyone seen an Amfleet I 2x1 Cafe/BC car that has gone through the interior refresh/refurbishment yet? I can’t...