On my recent cross-country trip on Amtrak, I made a point of comparing the roomette in the Viewliner sleeper, which I had on the Lake Shore Limited from Chicago to Boston, with the roomette in the Superliner I occupied from Washingto back to Chicago on the Capitol Limited. The most obvious difference is that there…
(Once again, my apologies for the long delay between posts. Amtrak does not yet have wifi on its long-distance trains, but I was hoping to get to this during my stopover of several hours in Chicago. Alas, the internet connection in Amtrak’s Metropolitan Lounge wasn’t working. I will do my best to make up for…
I’m frequently asked what the sleeping car accommodations are like on Amtrak’s long-distance trains. It’s a hard question to answer because there are a lot of options. Superliner cars on the western trains are a lot like the Viewliner cars on the eastern routes. Both offer roomettes and bedrooms, but there are some small but…
The Crescent, Amtrak‘s train # 20, runs daily between New Orleans and New York by way of Atlanta and Washington. It departs at 7:00 in the morning and it occurs to me as I’m walking down the platform to my sleeping car that 13 hours in New Orleans is not nearly enough, dinner at Irene’s…