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    Lake Shore/Capitol Limited Sleeping Car Menu Refresh 1/16/19

    Looks like the new menus are posted. 4 choices for lunch/supper. 2-3 of them are hot (cant tell if the Asian noodle dish is served hot or cold). Breakfast has been completely reworked to include choice of cereals (hot & cold) as well as hard boiled eggs, a breakfast sandwich and 2 kinds of...
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    Vancouver Baggage Storage

    My father & I will be arriving in Vancouver on a Monday night in early April on the Amtrak Cascades and leaving the next evening on the VIA Canadian. We would like to check out of our hotel Tuesday morn, ditch our bags (both carryon and to be checked) at the station and spend the day...
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    Sleeping car meals on 27/28

    My wife and I are going to be traveling MSP to PDX in the next couple days. I've done the route quite a few times in coach but this will be my first time in a sleeper car. She has only taken coach too, but just to her family's place in North Dakota. What is the food like for the SPK - PDX...
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    Empire Builder Detour through ND - both directions?

    My GF and I are going to visit her parents in Rugby over the 4th of July. She was going to drive back to Minneapolis and I was going to bike to Minot a few days later where I could check my bike back home. As the train passed back through Rugby, her folks were going to hand me my suitcase at...
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    Fee for using a live phone agent?

    Hi all, I was flipping through the latest timetable book and noticed a phrase I had not seen before: "Contact Center Agents ..... A fee may apply to bookings made through a contact center agent, if the booking could have been made through a self-service channel (Amtrak.com, Julie, or...
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    Board at Fargo or MSP

    My folks will be taking the train from Minnesota to New Orleans next week and are trying to decide whether to board at Fargo or Minneapolis. If they board in Fargo, it is closer to their home, but it is in the middle of the night. If they board in Minneapolis, they could stay at my place and I...
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    Weird AGR posting date

    I took a trip at the beginning of April using the USA Rail Pass and the points didn't post (I never seem to have luck with pass points workIng). Called up AGR yesterday and saw that the points posted today. However, they have a posting date of 1/31/12! How did it get such an early date? Do...
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    NYP Overnight Luggage Storage

    I will be heading out east soon and have an overnight in NYP (want to ride the Cardinal back west). I'll be crashing at a friend's place, but would rather store my carry-on baggage overnight at the station and just take a small backpack with me. Do they allow overnight luggage storage?
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    Which lounge do you reccommend?

    Thanks to the generosity of Ben_G, I have a Club Acela pass to use on an upcoming trip. I'll be leaving MSP, and will be making stops in Chicago, New Orleans, Washington D.C. and NYC. All these places have first class lounges of varying quality. I know MSP isn't much more than a separate...
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    Push-Pull Conversion

    I was looking at the OTOL fleet roster, and kept seeing that some cars were 'equipped for push-pull service.' I know what push-pull operation is, but what is physically different about these cars that makes them so? What would go wrong if a regular car was put on a push-pull route? Thanks in...
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    One Week - How Far Can I Get?

    Hi all, Last year I bought a 15 day USA Rail pass and did a week trip over spring break. I left MSP on a Saturday morning, took the CONO to New Orleans and spent a night there. Then caught the Sunset Limited to LA and did a night there. Next morning took the CS to Portland for another night...
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