Recent content by yuzu

From the Streetcar to Union Station is completely unintuitive: The end of the streetcar is in the middle of a busy street with fencing everywhere. To enter Union Station from the streetcar, you have to get from the streetcar in the middle of a street to a parking garage on the other side...

As I understood it, this is because of tunnel height restrictions in Baltimore and entering New York. The Cardinal used to be a Superliner, despite leaving Washington to the southwest. When Superliner cars were used, it terminated in Washington rather than continuing to New York, but was still...

Last year I was able to check bags on 66 from WAS-BOS, and lots of people were collecting baggage on the platform at BOS. But at BOS nobody was able to check a bag on 65 going the other way, even though there was a baggage car.

Six pieces of luggage is certainly well in excess of Amtrak's official policy (two carry on bags). But I have frequently exceeded Amtrak's limit and nobody has ever complained. Six bags may be pushing it though. I assume one of them is a "personal item" and that you are not actually bringing...