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Arrived at the Acela Lounge in DC around 6pm, and it is looking great with fresh furniture, tasteful decor, and TVs not too loud. Excellent food offerings with a half dozen different bars and snack pouches, plus a coffee and espresso machine and a fridge full of juices and sodas. It’s not the...

Baltimore Pennsylvania Station, scaffolding everywhere outside the old station for a facelift. Led me to look up the plans: New Renderings Released of Future Redevelopment — Baltimore Penn Station That’ll be nice.

Amtrak 19/20, aka “The Crescent”, Washington DC to Tuscaloosa (December 22, on time departure, arrive about an hour and a half late) and return (December 27, about an hour late departure, but arrived nearly on time), two passengers. The car was a Viewliner in a roomette with two bunk beds, a...

Sunny in the 70s at 10am, a beach full of chairs but largely empty of people. The crowds on the southern tip of South Beach tend not to wander north to the pricier and more family oriented restaurants of Lincoln Road, not to mention the top end hotels, on the northern part of South Beach. The...

Looks like they’re selling about half the train in coach, and maybe only half in the sleepers — two cars but I only see one attendant. We’re in a roomette. I checked online just before departure, listed as 50% full but sold out. Preordered meals a week ago but that didn’t seem to matter...

This very engaging young British couple took their first every trip to the USA just before the pandemic. The filmmaker loves jazz and the blues, and incorporates music magnificently, often remaining silent to allow both the music and the visuals tell the story. And it is structured as a story...