Recent content by Mjo

This is just one anecdotal report, but we took the CZ from SF to Chicago in July, and it was amazing. We were late coming into Chicago, by 2 hours, I think. However, all our delays were from Denver, east. Mostly it was sitting in Denver for a private car to be attached, and then a longer stop...

WOW, thank you for all the information and suggestions, both about packing and tips about the places we are going. Very helpful! Using a combination of reducing what we bring and packing it a little smarter, I think we have things down to something manageable and allowed. We did a mock...

I should have worded it 'I'm just trying to figure out how many rolling bags of 28" or less ...' The kids each have a 20" roller and then we have a 26" one. I'm looking at buying a 28" one from AAA, possibly two (one to replace one of thee small ones). I figure each kid will have a backpack...

Hello. We begin our cross country adventure in less than a week and my mind has turned to packing. We are taking the LSL from Boston to Chicago with a hip-fake car rental for a family reunion and Niagara falls, then taking the Southwest Chief to Williams AZ and the bus shuttle to Williams JCT...

Okay, my family is leaving on our big round trip cross country Amtrak adventure in 13 days, and this link just scared the begeezus out of me! Seriously, but also hilarious!!!!!! OMG, what have I done?!?!

I am in this same boat, only with the 15 day/8 segment rail pass for 4 people, and our passes were also otherwise full. No one mentioned this being an issue at all (I spoke to an agent who called about the reconfiguration), and it didn't even occur to me till you mentioned it. I have my new...

Thanks! Looking at it again, I'm not sure where I got that early dinner thing from. What you say makes perfect sense. Is this sleeper car change just because of the extended construction? I've got a reservation that says sleeper from Chicago to Boston with a room number and no caveats...

Shuttle picture helps a lot, thanks. This 10 minute piece is why we can't check luggage for the whole trip, and at first I was annoyed until I realized this did us a HUGE favor. Planned out how to bring everything without checking, and now happy with how much simpler virtually everything will be.

This is the same guest, just finally as a member. Another question about this trip: I got an automated call from Amtrak a couple days ago about a change to our first leg, the non-rail pass leg, Lake Shore Limited Boston to Syracuse. Normally, in Albany, the Boston train cars would be...