Recent content by MichiganFoamer

If I don't have at the very least a roomette booked, I don't set foot on an overnight train. Period, end of paragraph. Don't have a problem with riding the all-coach 350s, 360s, and 370s that operate in and out of my home state/town, however.

Highly recommend the Plaza Motel in Bryan. Clean, Well Maintained, and affordable. If memory serves me correctly, they even give a railfan discount. :) Oh yeah, you MUST love their sign, it's the law. :lol: http://www.theplazamotel.com/

I will vouch for the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, WI: http://www.nationalrrmuseum.org/ And if you ever make it up to the Great White North, I highly recommend the Canadian Railway Museum near Montreal: http://www.exporail.org/ Don't forget to see the Alleghany @ the Henry Ford Museum...

Guest_GP35_, where are you coming up with those numbers? My local fuel stop has regular #2 for 3.05/gal, B20 for 3.02, and B99 for 2.99! Far cry from $5 I'd say!!!!

Julie the Amtrak God! :huh: From some NPR boradcast: http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-po...npr_5352418.mp3 :P :rolleyes: :lol:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-Pullman-Railr...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-YORK-CENTRAL-SYSTE...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/VERY-NICE-PULLMAN-TRAI...1QQcmdZViewItem :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yeah, I caught the "2004" date on the original post. Don't worry, I don't believe anything anymore until I sees it with me own eyes. :rolleyes:

I agree.

and to think that this route was once served by the SEMTA "Silver Streak" several times a day before they made the brilliant decision to pull the plug on that operation... <_< :( :angry:

Being dealyed by a freight derailment is one thing, but I can tell you this much...if a circa 1950 dispatcher were to have considerably delayed a passenger train by putting in the hole a buncha times to let freight traffic go by, he would have had some explaining to do by the time his shift was...

If Amtrak could offer a slumbercoach-type accomodation that was priced slightly more than a coach seat and considerably less than a roomette, I would probably ride the LDs a LOT more often than I currently do. I always have been a bit put off by their "everything or nothing" approach when It...

No I did not. :(

Haven't you guys ever heard the song "Alabamy Bound?". "Just gave the meanest ticket man on earth, all I'm worth, just to stick my footsies in an upper berth!" :lol: :lol: :lol:

The outlets in our room on the Capitol liminted on 6/28-6/29 were INOP. One of the few minor complaints I had about the overall trip.

I am very suprised that the 844 and 3985 are still operating.