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Hi all, it's been a while since I last posted here. My family is taking a vacation to Disney World in May and we are taking the train down and back. I've been using the Amtrak Guest Rewards credit card for about 5 years or so now and accumulating points, and finally took the opportunity to cash...

It's been a while since I was on any long-distance train. A friend of mine was talking about the Empire Builder and said that it is the only Amtrak route left that has an on-board kitchen. I vaguely remember that the Empire Service retained a full service kitchen after other trains had gone over...

My wife and I have been tossing around the idea of a trip to Disney World, using AGR points for the train trip. It used to be (quite recently) that if I tried to book from ORL to BUF, I would be offered the Silver Meteor from ORL to NYP and then had a choice of either the Empire Service or the...

I was wondering what the deal is with how the conductors punch somewhat complicated patterns into the ticket stubs. I did a short round trip this weekend to visit friends and noticed on the way out I got two punches that look like the letter M or maybe a bat, and on the way home just one punch...

Last night's Palmetto hit a car. Someone drove around the crossing arms and killed 4 people including a 12-year-old. http://www.buffalonews.com/260/story/864498.html I can't even try to get my head into the thought-process of people who do this. I have never in my life, even as a reckless...

Next week we're traveling from Buffalo-Depew to New York on the Lake Shore Limited in roomettes. We are bring our toddler's stroller with us for the trip, and it's pretty clear to me that there is nowhere on a Viewliner to stow it as carry-on. So we'll have to check it (and maybe one other bag)...

I was looking at the AGR zone chart and noticed something strange. In the NE Zone map, the Lake Shore Limited between Albany and Springfield is missing. Does this mean that one cannot book the Lake Shore Limited to Boston using a NE Zone reward, but would have to use a 1 Zone reward? All the...

In two weeks we are traveling from Buffalo to Syracuse, and we'd like to bring our two-year-old's stroller with us. I see on the Amtrak site that baby paraphernalia such as strollers, car seats, and diaper bags don't count towards your carry-on bag limit, which is good for us, but I'm not sure...

Today I took a short round-trip from Niagara Falls, NY to Buffalo-Exchange St and back on the Maple Leaf, for the AGR 20,000,000th member bonus points promotion. On the first trip, I was in Amfleet I #82572, which is a "Regional Coachclass (Push-Pull)", with blue-green seats and not a whole lot...

So I suppose we can generally all agree that North America lags behind the rest of the developed world (and some of the developing world) when it comes to passenger rail, in terms of network comprehensiveness, train frequencies, etc. I am curious as to how other countries do things differently...

The "change of linens" topic got me wondering. Can a sleeper be booked by more than one passenger on one "run" of a train? For example, if I book a roomette on the LSL from Buffalo to NYC, could somebody else book the same roomette from Chicago to Cleveland? How does Amtrak's reservation system...