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I don't like to fly. We just discovered the train experience two years ago and have been on the Cardinal and the Empire Builder and have another one booked for this May.

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Gad I started to get excited until I saw that you can only use it through March - not May. Waaa

We put down our payment for the family bedroom on the Texas Eagle. We are in family bedroom 15 in car 2130 going to Galveston and family bedroom 15 in car 2220 coming back. I assume it is the same room except different engines? I think it is the only sleeping car on the train?

Am I on the wrong page to check the train status? I come up with the reservation page. I don't see the train status spot.

If it was me alone, I would do the roommette. My husband and I did this past year and we ended up talking to the people across from us. We also would keep our doors open (when not asleep) and we could each share each other's view. Of course if you don't have a nice person across the isle...

Thanks. I will check it out.

Is there a spot on-line to check to see how late a train runs? In otherwords, can you go on-line today and see if a train in running on time or do you need to call Julie? I get tired of Julie!!!! LOL

I just ended up calling Amtrak and you were right Alan. If the train is late, then the bus should wait. Of course we were three hours late coming back on the Cardinal in Indy and the bus did not wait. We would have had to wait several hours until the next bus. Since we were four hours from...

Oh, I need to call this weekend to put the reservation in for sure. I am on hold since last Sunday.

Okay, here is the timetables and wondering about this. Going to Galveston - leave Bloomington, IL at 4:19 p.m. arriving in Longview at 9:00 a.m. Longview (bus) departure at 9:10 a.m. Okay, that only gives us ten minutes. I wonder what happens if the train doesn't get in on time? On the...

Thanks Alan. Yes we do have a sleeping room accomodation. I am not sure if the Texas Eagle runs late a lot or not. We will be taking the Amtrak bus from Galveston so we won't have much opportunity to find dinner on the way. I think it is a five hour bus ride. I just checked my time sheet...

I didn't know if it matters if you are on sleepers, if they will wait dinner for people scheduled to come in on a 6:15 p.m. time.

What a cute little girl. How was the sleeping with her? Of course she looked like she slept in the chair all right.

Thank you for your full description. There will be three of us. My husband and I and our eighteen year old daughter. I am 5-1 so I am hoping the "child size" beds will be okay with me. I slept in a roommete this past year on the way to Seattle and back. It was fine for the two of us (okay a...

We are booked on the Texas Eagle. I think we have a bedroom (window on each side). We don't have a bathroom (that I know). Don't they have those rooms that there is a isle on on side where people walk through the car on this train? Nothing came up for anything but roommetes when I check this...

I forgot to sign in (being a member). So to travel Amtrak I have to get my daughter a government photo id? She will be using a birthcertificate and a high school id for the cruise.

Thanks for sharing. I have a feeling I am going on the KMart version train versus the more deluxe trains. (Mine is Cardinal)

Ahhhh. Well I am headed your way. We have never been to NYC (unless when I was a child).

To Alan - Do you live in NYC? That is our destination.