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Do we have a list anywhere of all the upcoming new Amtrak routes and the dates they are currently slated to start running? (As of Jan. 2024) For example, I know they want to reestablish a route from the Twin Cities to Duluth, and add an additional train running from MSP to Chicago along the...

In the last few months, Union Pacific has been talking with the Western Wisconsin Rail Coalition about bringing back a privately-run passenger rail service to the area, to connect St. Paul, Minnesota with Eau Claire, Wisconsin and several points in between...

I see there's a service disruption this morning for 27. Seems to be stopped in Spokane. Anyone know the cause?

Has anyone here ever met anyone famous while on an Amtrak train? Got any stories about them to share? The closest I come myself was on a Southwest Chief trip leaving Los Angeles in 2008 when I was seated in the dining car opposite a very nice older woman who was a funeral director and said...

Hi. Twice this past year I've had to cancel planned travel on the Empire Builder due to its chronic lateness, and from what I read here, I don't see it returning to anything like what I'd consider reliable service anytime in the next year. I've got an Amtrak travel e-voucher for that cancelled...

Hi. I've just booked a trip for the latter half of May where I'll ride the California Zephyr to EMY / San Francisco, stay 3 nights in a downtown SF hotel, and then ride the Coast Starlight and Empire Builder to get home. I have questions about the San Francisco part. I've got a Thruway bus...

I have a hypothetical question about making a change to the timetable of the Southwest Chief and also the Empire Builder and am wondering what logistical obstacles there would be to doing such a thing if the will to actually do this was there. Currently (and for at least the last three years)...

Do any of you know if the Amtrak station in Milwaukee (downtown) has baggage lockers, i.e. somewhere you can stow a piece of luggage securely for some hours while one does stuff outside the station before returning for both it and your return train?

I was on my return journey on the Southwest Chief yesterday morning. It was just after midnight, and we had just crossed into Kansas, a little ways out of Garden City, when they stopped our train. Someone came on the PA and said that we might hear and feel them disconnecting and reconnecting...

Hi all. I'm taking a trip in a few weeks on the Southwest Chief. To do so, I will have to drive a long distance to the Fort Madison depot and get on there, because the only long distance train that passes near where I live, the Empire Builder, doesn't connect to the SC in Chicago, at least not...

Hi all. I've had a round trip on a Southwest Chief roomette scheduled for mid-February for some months now. It's tied in to a specific event I'm attending, so I can't change the date, and am getting very concerned that there may not be a train for me to take come Feb. 12 due to strike action...