r/Amtrak

collection of various Siemens Charger locomotives that Amtrak uses on its long route and state supported trains in the form of cute characters!

Credit to Trainlover at streamlinermemories.info for the menu.

As he notes in his commentary, the only main without any meat in it is a cheese sandwich. If you were vegetarian, hope you liked that and bean soup.

The menu variety and creativity by this point isn't huge; the sixties were not a good decade for passenger rail, and dining car offerings are very much an indicator of the long, slow decline the industry was facing. Still, this menu is more than sufficient for this train; the route from Chicago to the Twin Cities is usually between six and eight hours long, which only means two meals.

The Twin Cities Hiawatha is the direct ancestor of the modern Borealis, which is the first equivalent train run by Amtrak since 1985. It only has a counter-service cafe car with premade food, but is still a very popular route and the train often sells completely out.

I created this Amtrak map using Rhino 6, focusing on preserving geographic accuracy. I orgininally wanted to show every service line as distinct, but decided to combine lower frequency services (daily and long-distance) where they share a terminal for clarity at this scale.

The goal is to eventually develop regional service diagrams to show every service as separate. I've started a (very in-progress) site below where I'll include these and the overall map.

Enjoy!

https://interregional.cargo.site/

Saw lots of awesome scenery, but everyone posts pics of that, so here are some buildings and other slices of Americana that I saw out the window of my roomette.

These Acela next-gens haven’t even been running for a full year 😭😭😭

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Currently riding on the Texas Eagle 422.

I am very grateful and thankful for my Roomette.

The Roomettes are very much worth every penny of the extra cost.

I booked an acela direct train from New York to Boston (Sept 13) and was just informed that my itinerary may have to change due to construction work on the tracks. I may need to change in New Haven. Can anyone please tell me if it's gonna be a hassle?

I just booked this ticket last week and I can't believe they were selling tickets on that date when they knew about the construction work. If I had known this I'd have just booked a coach to Boston instead. Now the price for the coach may have jumped.

Now I don't even know how long it takes for them to finalise my itinerary. Can anyone share their experience if they go through the same thing? If I choose a refund I am going to lose some money in currency conversion. Can I ask for a compensation voucher in this matter?

Your help is deeply appreciated.