Recent content by mitzib

Haven't rode any trains yet but gathering information. One question are there locks on the sleeper rooms? If you go to the dining car, do you lock your room or just leave it as is? Just curious

Can someone point me in the direction of the sopping portal to earn points or do you have to have a special credit card to purchase..

Have never ridden a train before but am looking forward to it. I have watched the you tube videos that riders have posted and was just wondering the procedures at Lorton Va ..Do they load all the autos and hook the cars up to the passenger cars before they load the passengers and I wish someone...

Thanks everyone for your replies but no I will probably be using the top bunk..

Hi everyone, just a quick question about the sleeper bedrooms. In the superliner bedrooms there is a double seat on one side and a single seat across from it, when the bed is made up at night is the single seat used for part of the bed? Hubby sacks out before me so was hoping I could use the...

How the the Senate, House( government) take a pay-cut to fund the things that need it.

I have learned so much today I feel like I am in a classroom and want to say a sincere Thanks to you all. I know experience goes a long way and I am sure if other newbies find this forum they too will learn a lot. I will report back when ever we get to take our trip even if it a ways...

Gotcha ya looked at the list I printed out so everything is falling into place, Thanks for the reply. :P

Are all the sleeper cars on the auto train deluxe or certain ones?

Wow, thanks so much..Do you work for them??? A newbie would never be able to pull this much infor. I noticed on the deluxe car that roomette # 15 is different, is it because it's at the end? and I understand about the E rooms and the J rooms in the deluxe sleeper. and do you notice a lot of...

Can someone explain if there is a difference and what between the Deluxe Superliner cars and the Regular Superliner cars other than there being more bedroom on the cars? Wow you all have opened up a can of worms here in this household. :o . But thanks anyhow really appreciate it.. :P

Oh my goodness I will never understand all the A's B's C's of traveling by train, I guess it's a whole different language, :help: so I am glad that I am doing the research early. I only wish we lived closer to a station so we could experience it more often. Thanks everyone for their helpful...

Thanks Battalion51, I have printed out the information from Auto train tips, lots of reading.Thanks again.

Thanks everyone for your replies,, thank you.. Dovecote you mentioned about calling for our reservation, I did not know you could request certain rooms as we will be looking at a bedroom, not a roomette or even the family just the 2 person bedroom(the one with the restroom) and there is no way...

Hi, we are very new to this mode of transportation and trying to get questions answered early before we go. When we make our reservation and we would be doing it on line do we put it in my husbands name only or do we put both of our names on the res? 'Have never traveled by train and excited...