Recent content by Skip1229

Thanks for this info, I actually did what you’re talking about last year when we went to Florida. Went down there and waited for our car. Made a phone call to Amtrak customer service when we were in Tampa and did get priority offload ordered for the trip back to Lorton. I will plan to do that...

My wife and I are taking the Auto Train from Lorton to Sanford in three weeks and returning on the Auto Train in January after a 3-1/2 week stay in Tampa. I’m curious if any others have considered options on signing up and paying additional for the priority auto service - being guaranteed that...

Just want to share that my wife and I were on the northbound AutoTrain that had to be rerouted due to the derailing in Lake City, South Carolina. We also had several delays and were routed through Columbia SC and Hamlet SC. And we got a lunch with a heated stew and a snack in the late afternoon...

Thank you. I’m not worried about the automatic brake kicking in if a driver puts the car in reverse to get around another car when vehicles are being staged since no car should be moving very quickly inn reverse.

I’m not worried about an alarm being triggered when my Volvo SUV is parked in one of the train cars on the AutoTrain. But I have another question: Do the drivers of cars on and off the AutoTrain always have the car in Drive or Park and never in Reverse? Reason this is important - my new Volvo...

I am a retired attorney. My wife and I have enjoyed trains all our lives, beginning in pre-Amtrak days when I remember taking the Twentieth Century Limited with the NY Central, the Broadway Limited with the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Denver Rocket with the Rock Island Line, etc. Opportunities...