Recent content by The Cardinal

Jim, as someone who has lived in Kfalls and currently lives near Medford, getting off in Eugene and driving down would be your best bet. The car rental agencies in Kfalls are at the airport, which is not very close to the train station. And highway 140 from Kfalls to Medford is pretty during...

I wonder how they will handle it when there is a "service discruption" with no alternative transportation provided...

Hmm, wasn't the Cardinal suppose to become a daily train in the fall of 2011??

LOL!!

I've been riding AMTRAK since 1994. From time to time I have run into some rude employees (quite a few of them at Chicago Union Station in fact). Usually conductors. But at least with the conductors, you don't have them the entire trip like you do the car attendants. The worst ever was a...

I have to disagree with those on here blaming the coach pax for spreading out at night. The majority of my cross country trips are in coach, as that is all I can afford. While I do not lay across the seat next too me, should it be vacant, I do spread out a bit. I make sure though that should...

It should. Every AMTRAK bus I have been on has a "lift" for people in wheelchairs or scooters.

Last fall I was on 28 connecting to 30. We were several hours late getting into Chicago and were informed just outside of Union Station that they would not be holding the Cap for those of us connecting and we were to go to Passenger Services. So a large group of us were directed to a room...

Last fall I was connecting from the EB to the CL. EB was 4 hours late, so I missed my connection to the CL. AMTRAK put all of us up at the Hyatt Regency McCormick place. Gave us cab fare, food allowance and ticketed us for the next day's CL. The hotel was even nice enough to let me check out...

If you are traveling on the Empire Builder and will be on there for more than one night, then by all means get a lower level seat. You will actually be able to get a decent nights sleep down there.

Stay at the Riverplace Residence Inn. You won't regret it. There are some great restaurants in that area, all within walking distance. Waterfront Park is also there and it is nice to stroll around after dark and see the lights of the city and the bridges going over the Willamette River. The...

I have to agree with the poster "abcnews" on this one. As I was thinking the exact same thing this past fall when I was on an east bound Empire Builder that was over 3 hours late getting into CHI, which caused myself and others to miss their connection to the CL. We all got a free night in...

That is my favorite hotel in downtown Portland. You can't beat the amenities for the price. The free breakfast buffet is amazing and the Portland street car stops right in front of the hotel. The street car is free downtown as are the MAX trains (downtown). The hotel is right on the...

Just thought I'd interject here some personal experience on a missed "guaranteed" connection. Back in mid October I took a trip from PDX to Pittsburgh. We had some trouble in Montana, BNSF freight broke down in front of us on single track. We lost a couple of hours and things didn't get any...

Absolutely. Every time in the past 5 years that I have ridden the Cardinal to from CHI to CIN and back, it has been a full train.