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It's been nearly a year since I travelled on the Cardinal with diner 8400 in tow from Washington to Indianapolis (for Beech Grove). Any progress reports? Any photographs? After a year they surely could have designed and built a whole new prototype.

The Sydney Morning Herald featured a review of the Sunset Limited yesterday. It's generally positive (didn't mention the food) and can be read at: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/waken-the-sle...91211-knss.html

I've got a few days in Los Angeles next year and am hoping to take a day trip to San Diego Zoo. When I try and check the price and times on the Amtrak website I can easily get from Lax to SDZ but no matter what I try (2 single trips, return journey, multi city) the return journey just shows an...

Just picked this up on the ABC website (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 'A Ghan train travelling between Alice Springs and Adelaide has derailed after hitting a camel near Kulgera in the Northern Territory. A spokeswoman for Great Southern Rail says the locomotive derailed around 9pm...

April 11 After two days in Chicago doing tourist things (Institute of Art for the Edvard Munch Exhibition, a tour of Pullman, Chicago Symphony, dinner in the Pump Room and squeezing value out of our CTA passes) we checked out of our hotel and headed off for CUS to check our bags at the...

After a week in New York with evenings spent at the Lincoln Centre, a couple of Broadway matinees and doing our best to extract as much value as possible from our MetroCards we prepared to start heading west and home. As the Cardinal leaves at such an early hour we checked into the Hotel...

31 March I've used Amtrak enough to know that making arrival time crucial is not one of the best ideas and, generally, late arrivals haven't been a problem (arriving in downtown LA after midnight was a bit daunting, though) so I have myself PARTLY to blame for the following... Having arrived...

I’ll break this report into 4 parts to cover the various sections of my route across the United States, otherwise it’d just get too long to read and post in one session. So here goes... Los Angeles - Chicago Left Port Macquarie on 27 March to allow for any problems with Qantas which may have...

Next month I have a two day layover in Chicago and, as a former staffer with the Department of Housing and Regional Development I am interested in a visit to Pullman, one of the world's first planned communities. I know how to get there (Red Line and the 111 bus) and will have a CTA visitor's...

Amtrak train status currently shows the Cardinal still due into WAS. Seems to have disappeared after leaving Charlottesville 3 hours late. My partner is onboard and I'm getting curious.

I shall be arriving at NYP via numbers 30 and 148 and may have to wait some time before I connect with my partner. Does anyone know at which time time the Club Acela shuts down for the night?

I will be travelling from LAX to NYP in late March. I'm a little concerned about my connections between the SWC to the CL and the NEC. Not too worried about the transfer to the CL but am rather concerned about the transfer to the NEC. My question is that there is much discussion on the forum...

Yesterday I made a booking LAX to NYP for 10 March 2009 (we plan ahead). My partner will be travelling solo and generally uses the downstairs shower even when we always take a bedroom so I thought I'd save some cash by booking roomettes on the SWC and the Cardinal. Having more time on my hands...

I'll be traveling transcontinental (again) in March and, at the risk of offending all you Americans, I loath the boiled sludge you call coffee and was wondering if it's possible to obtain boiling water from the sleeping car attendant or dining car staff to make coffee or tea during the journey...