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My wife found a very large suitcase today, which we plan to use on our upcoming trip later this week. I hope it is not too big?
We will be going business class on a Northeast regional from Ashland to WAS. In Ashland (an unmanned stop), there are no checked baggage arrangements - just carry on, but the business class can often be sparse on a Saturday morning, so there should be room in the BC car...
After that we will then connect to the Capital Limited to Chicago with a roomette, and later, on to the SW Chief to Albuquerque (sleeper).
The big black bag is 31" tall or 33" if you count the rollers, but I think they consider it to be 31". The bag is a little over 20" wide (about 20.5") and about 12" deep.
The advantage of this very large bag is we don't end up with so many smaller bags, etc.. We most likely will have two more smaller bags, so we would have 3 total for two people. But one being quite large...
Would they prohibit us from getting on the Northeast Regional with this large of a bag? Or in Washington, would they question the 31" size. I plan to just carry it onto our sleeping car and place it on the luggage rack in the lower level, but I could easily check it - if that is better?
I think we would be OK...
We will be going business class on a Northeast regional from Ashland to WAS. In Ashland (an unmanned stop), there are no checked baggage arrangements - just carry on, but the business class can often be sparse on a Saturday morning, so there should be room in the BC car...
After that we will then connect to the Capital Limited to Chicago with a roomette, and later, on to the SW Chief to Albuquerque (sleeper).
The big black bag is 31" tall or 33" if you count the rollers, but I think they consider it to be 31". The bag is a little over 20" wide (about 20.5") and about 12" deep.
The advantage of this very large bag is we don't end up with so many smaller bags, etc.. We most likely will have two more smaller bags, so we would have 3 total for two people. But one being quite large...
Would they prohibit us from getting on the Northeast Regional with this large of a bag? Or in Washington, would they question the 31" size. I plan to just carry it onto our sleeping car and place it on the luggage rack in the lower level, but I could easily check it - if that is better?
I think we would be OK...
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