Amtrak long-distance trains are equipped with either Viewliner and Superliner sleeping cars. Both types offer roomettes, bedrooms and a wheelchair accessible bedroom; Superliners also have a Family Bedroom that will accommodate two adults and two small children. Viewliner sleepers are found on overnight trains on Eastern routes: the Lake Shore Limited, the Cardinal, the…
(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 no idea if there will be internet access during our journey, whether sporadic or not at all. Anticipating the latter, I will post the following…
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 ombudsman. As an inveterate traveler, I find something interesting almost every time I visit his website. It takes only a few visits to become…
At a NARP luncheon a few years ago, I was chatting with an Amtrak executive who said, albeit facetiously, that Amtrak is the the most profitable money-loosing national railroad system in the entire world. He was right then and even more so today. Amtrak has just released their numbers for the fiscal year just ended…