Once in a while, I run across some Facebook posts that are very critical of Amtrak. Usually the complaint comes from someone who is an infrequent Amtrak traveler and is...

(Monday, May 21–We are about to embark on The American Queen, a large paddlewheel riverboat that will take us down the Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans. Unfortunately, I have...

I have mentioned Christopher Elliott here a few times. He writes travel columns for both USA Today and the Washington Post and has become a kind of on line travel...

Five of Amtrak’s long-distance trains feature Viewliner sleeping cars: the Silver Meteor, the Silver Star, the Crescent, the Cardinal and the Lake Shore Limited. Those trains travel over routes with...

This blog seems to be generating an increasing number of questions about train travel including three in just the past few days from people about to undertake their first overnight...

I’m getting more and more questions about train travel and, of course, I’m very happy to answer as many as I can. Here are my usual responses to some of...

My 2011 trip to Russia and China included rail travel from London to Berlin to Moscow to St. Petersburg and back to Moscow. At that point, I joined a tour...

 Amtrak uses Viewliners on a number of the eastern overnight routes because the bi-level Superliners are too high for some of the tunnels and a few or the older bridges...

There are five standard bedrooms in an Amtrak Superliner sleeping car, all on the upper level. They’re quite a bit bigger than a roomette, and that’s nice, but unless the...

I’ve just responded to a question about what to expect when traveling overnight on one of Amtrak’s long-distance trains and thought it would make an interesting couple of posts ....