Recent content by Dan O

I tend to remember both, the great scenery and the goofy passenger I sat next to on one trip (was going LA to Chicago and thought Albuquerque may be Chicago/didn't want to be left in snack car as afraid she couldn't find her way back/etc). But I have only been on a few train rides so it's...

I went from Southern California to the Bay area to NYC and then back to Southern California by the more direct route a year ago. Then just straight to NYC and back in September. I visited my daughter but she had just been here for Christmas so it was as much to ride the California Zephyr in the...

I rode from southern California to NYC recently, being in coach Chicago to NYC and Chicago to southern California. I don't have back problems. Sleeping in coach wasn't the best but I survived. I slept 3 or 4 hours at night and then napped on and off during the day. I was next to people both...

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I took this trip on the LSL in August. I was up half the night probably because is been in a sleeper the previous 2 nights. The car was quiet. The break in Albany is nice. One can easily walk 30 or more minutes there on the platform. I went into the station but it was packed with people waiting...

I would do as AmtrakBlue suggested. I recently had a trip from southern California to NYC and back. I was glad it was on two reservations as I had to change both legs of the trip due to family issues. I was able to do so but got charged a higher rate for the change. Breaking the trip in two, I...

I did try to do it online but it didn't work. Called and got LSL sleeper and SWC coach. I will suffer with coach instead of paying $1160 for the roomette. I have plenty of points but you are right it is difficult to redo. Thanks.

When I check from Chicago to Riverside it says there's a roomette but AGR said not.

Thanks. Agreed. I took a sleeper on the LSL and coach on SWC. I'd prefer 2 days of good meals and a bed to one day of lousy meals and a bed but the SWC had no rooms. The internet said they did have a roomette but I called twice and AGR said there wasn't one for the entire trip. Home is happy...

Hello. I took a train from Los Angeles to NYC. Enjoying my stay but a crisis is brewing at home. I may need to return earlier than planned. The ticket has me leaving Penn Station on 9/11 via Lake Shore Limited in coach and getting the Southwest Chief (roomette) on the 22th, arriving in LA on tje...

I bought a ticket that appeared on the Amtrak app. I had to modify the reservation to a day earlier. I was emailed the new ticket with the correct date but the app still shows the prior ticket date. The reservation number is the same. It's been 24 hours so I was wondering if it will ever show...

I had a trip from New York City to San Francisco via the Lake Shore Limited and California Zephyr. I was going to visit my sister in San Francisco for a few days and then make it back to southern California somehow. Any way the visit in SF wasn't going to work so I cancelled and rebooked to...

Apparently there was a pedestrian strike between Riverside and San Bernardino by the 4. Metrolink train to Perris was halted in Riverside. The accident was in the area of Highgrove, just a very short distance from the Riverside station. Edited to be more specific.

First week in September.

Thanks for the heads up. I am mainly going to see NYC and my daughter who lives there. I'll ask her if she's up for a ride on the Acela. I thought I could go to Philly and back in a relatively short time period one morning.