Recent content by supergrandmother

Yes I agree. In all my LD trips in a sleeper, I have never had a noise problem.

It is definitely a hot mess as far as parking goes. There is actually zero parking at the station itself. But since we have zero Amtrak stations (except for Memphis all the way across the state) in Tennessee, it is my only choice and I do love train travel.

I took my daughter and two grandchildren to Washington DC this past week. On the way from Atlanta to DC we had two roommettes but I was being stingy with my AGR points and since both children liked riding and sleeping in the coach seats, I reserved coach for our return trip. The trip there was...

Parking at the Atlanta station, or the lack thereof, has been the subject the of several posts in the past. I knew that when I had travelled in the past, we had parked short-term across the street at the Kerbela Temple so I called there to ask about long-term parking. They were extremely nice...

I would go with the Redkap idea. I used the Redkaps when I took 2 if my grandchildren to DC. We actually boarded the southbound Crescent before they even called for families with small children. While I was still outside dealing with our tickets with the attendant the Redkap took the kids on...

About two years ago, I was travelling from Wash to Atl on the Crescent. Sometime around midnight, the attendant was consolidating the coach passengers into one car but there was an older woman on the front seat of our car who refused to allow someone to sit with her. She got very agitated and...

We recently had an accident here which involved a car crossing tracks in front of an oncoming freight train. Two young people were killed and two more severely injured. According to witnesses the train was visible and blowing the horn. Anyway, in the many reportings by the local news they have...

I am taking part of this same trip with my grandson starting on July 8....ATL-NOL and NOL-LAX. In the past I have stayed at the Hotel St. Marie. It is clean and inexpensive but may be a little old fashioned for a 15 year old. I have checked out on-line all the hotels mentioned here and I...

Glad to see this good report. Grandson and I are scheduled for ATL-NOL on Crescent and then on to LA on Sunset Ltd in July. I have ridden Crescent to NOL many times but I usually go on to CHI on CONO. This will be my first time on Sunset Ltd and grandson's first time in a sleeper (he has done...

The primary reason I wanted to take my grandson on a long distance trip this summer was because he will be 16 in October. I made our reservations yesterday. However, it is a moot point for me now since I used AGR points to book us a two-zone roomette for our trip. It just looks like I have...

Thanks folks. I don't mind the overnight in NOL and hotels there are not real expensive. I have enough points to easily do the two-zone in a roomette and have some left over. I didn't want to waste points on a three zone. If I can figure some way to get an overnight in LAX on the way home...

I am planning a long distance trip with my grandson this summer using my points. I have been on several long distance trip but I have never used my points (yes, I have many). According to the zone map, Atlanta to Seattle is a two zone trip. So, when I entered Atlanta to Seattle into the...

A couple of years ago I took my granddaughter who lives in Atlanta on a little train trip from Atlanta to Birmingham.....just to spend a little one-on-one grandmother-granddaughter time. It was also an introductory trip to the train before I took her and my oldest grandson overnight to DC. I...

You know..at first I felt bad about the folks who did not know about the room sizes, showers,toilets, meals, etc. But, then I remembered that before I took my first train trip, I was all over Amtrak.com finding out information about what to expect. These folks were part of a 7 day Alaska...

I boarded the Coast Starlight on June 9 in Seattle and noticed that there were three private cars attached. I was with a rather large group and none of them had ever been on Amtrak before. It was interesting to see their reactions to the roomettes. Most were not happy because they are older...