If we're talking about LA to Bay Area service, I would like to see service to San Francisco and not just San Jose, Oakland, Emeryville, etc. I'm not particularly interested in additional service up to Seattle. There's already a train from California to Seattle. There's zero Amtrak service to San...
You had me at "Broadway Limited":)
Certainly the idea of a through branch attaching to the Capitol Limited has been discussed in the PRIAA's before. They can certainly just keep the current Pennsylvanian schedule or even better adjust the current Pennsylvanian to reduce the gap between the...
19K passengers in 2019 transferred at Pittsburgh. I'd have to think most of them would be between the Capitol Limited and the Pennsylvanian.
19% of CL passengers transferred to "State supported and NEC services". Now that could also include passengers at Washington. The last time I traveled to...
In coach you have to sit next to a stranger.
In a sleeper, you have to pay an arm and a leg (probably more like an arm and two legs).
If I could find a sucker willing to travel with me, I would. But I can't.
I never got off the train but I saw the outside of the Toledo Ohio station and it didn't look pretty. It was during the graveyard shift (CL Westbound) and I didn't really sleep well so my memory could have been fuzzy.
I rode on the Capitol Limited back on 8/14. There was no observation lounge car, just a regular lounge car for serving food and passengers were told seating was only for paying customers only. It made the ride seem more like a plane trip than a train trip. I thing one of the lounge people said...
One thing to watch out for is snow. ice, and cold can delay trains and I'm guessing the California Zephyr would be one that would especially be susceptible. I remember taking the Lake Shore Limited and a train that was supposed to arrive in New York around 6:30pm arrived after midnight.
To my knowledge the Three Rivers (1996-2005) never had a diner car. AU endlessly complains about food and dining. I'm sure there are people who avoided it like the plague and would rather take that other train that was 8 hours longer just because it had a diner. If AU could be happy with an...