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From the highway we saw 3 or 4 sets by wagon mound and 1 south (railroad west?) of Las Vegas.

Based on the rest of our itinerary we couldn't go farther than Denver but that's okay. Aside from traveling with a sometimes loud one year old the actual trip has been very pleasant. In the end we'll probably ride again sometime but now have a better idea of what to do and expect. The wife has...

Now it's Denver where we're getting a rental car and driving to Albuquerque. Since the CZ is moving again hopefully we'll be fine (knock on wood).

Thank you for being helpful to a grumpy first time Amtrak traveller. It was appreciated.

An update from my rant above : customer service was surpringsly helpful and nice about the situation. They ended up booking us on the CZ through Denver (which I'm not sure that'll work but we'll try) where we'll rent a car and drive the rest of our trip. She did offer a bus route but 8 hours on...

Currently I'm Chicago and my SWC was canceled. I get stuff happens but how are travellers supposed to deal with this? This was my first Amtrak trip and never again will I plan another one. If you can't provide consistent service then you shouldn't exist.

Talked with an AGR agent. Our reservation is still valid. It sounds like when they dropped to 5 day a week trips somebody goofed and entered in either the wrong dates of the schedule change or their notification system doesn't realize that Saturday isn't Monday or Tuesday. The agent said he's...

Thank you. I signed up for that! Let me call that number too. I'm really hoping we're in the "nope your train is fine" category.

For a newbie like myself what does AGR mean?

Just had our SWC trip for April 23rd canceled. Guess it's time to call and see what's happening.

Semi on topic but if you're leaving baggage down where anybody can grab it is there a lot of theft?

Because gasoline really isn't any higher than normal, just higher than 2020 (no demand due to pandemic).

It's closed on Sundays.

Thanks for the tip!

We're riding the SWC to Albuquerque next year and have a rental car at the airport reserved. I'm figuring I'll either get a cab or Uber to the airport to pick it up, then come back to the station for the wife and kid.

On a recent trip to Kentucky there were a few stores with Crown peach available, and all of them were limited to 1 per customer. It is apparently very popular and flies off the shelf otherwise. We bought a bottle because, well why not, but haven't tried it yet. I find it interesting that you...

As an update my wife and I have decided to fly instead of take the Empire Builder. Flying round trip first class from Cleveland to Glacier National Park will cost about $3.5k as opposed to taking the EB which would be $2k one way, plus we have to get to Chicago, plus we have to get home to...

That proposed Elyria to Chicago trip would be pretty enticing.

We were thinking about taking the Empire Builder in June of 2022 from Chicago to West Glacier but wow, it's expensive! We already have a trip on the SWC for April and a family bedroom is half the cost of the EB.