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I slept in a duplex single bedroom on The Canadian two years ago. Mine was the lower room that had my bed roll out from under the room in front/above me. These rooms are smaller than a Amtrak roomette and the day chair is not as soft or comfortable. The in room toilet sticks out in front of you...

Holy crap! Your room looks like the interior of the track geometry car. You could probably answer questions that the conductor couldn't.

The "Flyaway Bus" was briefly featured in this seasons Amazing Race opener as the teams used it to get to the airport. A couple of shots from within the buses as well.

I came across this article in my local newspaper today. I though you guy's might want to see it. Stimulus gets Bear shop back on track

Thanks for all of your input. I'm leaning toward the San Joaquin routing right now with the two major factors being time and route redundancy.

Has anyone taken the trip from Emeryville to Los Angles via the San Joaquin / Ambus connection? If so, how was it? My alternative is the Coast Starlight but I will be taking that train the full route north two days later. I like the fact that the CS has a dinner and a roomette for the day (If I...

On my last train vacation after much planning and cost figuring I finally settled on an itinerary and price. It was late so I went to bed and booked the trip when I woke up. Six hours of sleep cost me $200 more for a roomette on the Empire Builder. If only you could have seen my face when I saw...

They let you sleep on the floor?

Just because someone can't afford a sleeper doesn't mean they can turn whatever space they can find into a makeshift roomette. Coach is just that, coach. It's not a rolling youth hostel or homeless shelter. Can you imagine people laying on the floor or across seats on a long overnight flight...

Are you serious? I knew I should have spent more time in the lounge. ;)

Even easier, check the numbers by the door.

I've seen it mentioned that depending on the train the last number for a sleeper nearest the dinner can be either 1 or 0. Does anyone know which trains start at 0 and which ones start at 1? Thanks!

I love the look of the Amfleet cars. My first interest in trains came from watching Amtrak from the school bus window on my way to school in Wilmington, DE. I realize they have their faults (tiny windows) but they will forever be linked to some of my fondest train memories. They were designed...

I'm interested as well. Thanks for sharing.

I used to use PBase but switched to flicker because of the extra features and sharing/commenting capabilities. I can even email a photo from my phone and have it show up in my Flickr photostream.

When the conductor comes through collecting tickets why doesn't he move them? I guess we will have to wait until Amtrak gets sued over some preventable injury before they will have incentive to enforce the rules. There should be NO excuse for luggage being stored in the Lounge. Unfortunately...

My Etrex Vista HCX works great except in Acela cars. It has a high sensitivity receiver and as long as it's near a window at all it will bring in signal. It takes a bit long to get the initial fix but once it does it reacquires much quicker if dropped.

Cool, Thanks for sharing your hard work.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress and the Obama administration reached a deal on Wednesday on a $789 billion economic stimulus package that would mix tax cuts and new government spending to rescue the faltering U.S. economy. Senate majority leader Harry Reid told reporters negotiators had...

I took an earlier bus from VAC to SEA last May. Vancouver's Union Station has a huge bus Station attached to it but unfortunately Amtrak doesn't use it. Instead Amtrak buses board out front of the station toward the north end by the McDonalds exit. The bus is a chartered bus not the standard...