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This is for fellow gimps who use the H room: The other day I called Amtrak Guest Rewards to book a H room on No. 7 because I didn't trust the website to give me a room in the base sleeper. Didn't want to get a car that might be eliminated at the last minute. Online, the H room for that date in...

Think Amtrak's the only screwed-up rail system in the world? Think again. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/world/europe/europe-trains-climate-goals.html

Posting this for a friend who isn't on the rail forums: Do you have any idea of about how many would be on the operating crew and the service crew on such as the Crescent (or some comparable train)? I have a friend who does professional cakes - and because of my not hearing well and not seeing...

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If I may be permitted a blatant commercial announcement: My 1994 book "Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America" has been updated with new photographs and a new epilogue and republished in Kindle and Nook ebook formats. (Other formats are on the way.) Details are at LINK. This forum was...

It occurred to me today that I haven't seen a route guide by a sleeper room window in quite a while. Has Amtrak done away with them? Sometimes I don't even see timetables.

I understand from older posts on other forums that movies were shown to kiddies at 3 pm and to adults at 8pm in the Pacific Parlour Cars lower-level "theater". Still happening?

I've just returned from a Chicago-Washington round trip on the Capitol Limited. My last trip had been in November, 2010, and I was delighted to see that Amtrak has added "enhanced dining service" (china and genuine napery instead of plastic and paper, plus an extra server and maybe food...

AMTRAK SHOWCASES THE GREAT MIGRATION EXHIBIT IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH Exhibit featured on MyBlackJourney.com website WASHINGTON - In celebration of Black History Month, Amtrak is featuring the Great Migration of African Americans exhibit on their MyBlackJourney.com (MBJ.com) microsite...

I'm heading from CHI to WAS on the Capitol Ltd on Thursday, Feb. 9. There is a trackwork service alert for the eastbound Cap to the effect that Monday through Thursday, if the train leaves Cleveland (scheduled 108 am) after 330am, passengers for Washington will be bused to WAS from Pittsburgh. I...

I'm doing a little "crowdsourcing" (as they call asking for help from the public) for the upcoming revised e-book version of my 1994 book "Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America." Specifically I'm looking for crew members, present or former, who were in the book almost 20 years ago, to update...

Just curious: Are all Amtrak OBS personnel certified (or otherwise trained) in CPR? I believe that the old train chiefs were, but not the rest of the crew. Has that changed?

I'm looking for photographs (donated, I'm afraid; I have no dough to spare) of specific scenes along the route of the Zephyr for the upcoming e-book edition of my 1994 book ZEPHYR: TRACKING A DREAM ACROSS AMERICA and hope some of the users of this forum can help. Full credit will be given...

Judging from stray comments, it seems to me that Simplified Dining Service is now used on the Empire Builder. Is that so?

For a projected new and updated edition of my book "Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America," I'd like to contact the members of the crew, both operating and on-board service, featured in that book to re-interview them. If any Amtrak OBS and engine crew read this forum and think they might be...