Amtrak

I believe this website will list everything available on the café menus by train. Which does not include the expanded dining options available for people in Private Rooms like Traditional Dining/Flexible Dining/Etc.

The website Grounded Life Travel has maps of Amtrak routes that is IMO better than Amtrak's site.

https://www.groundedlifetravel.com/amtrak-map-and-route-guide/

They also have a youtube channel with lots of reviews and commentary about Amtrak. https://www.youtube.com/groundedlifetravel

This trip would be nicer to take in Spring/Summertime but January seems to be the only time that I can take this length of trip. My biggest concern is packing for winter in cold places like Chicago and warm like Los Angeles on the same trip.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3002846

I booked with a bicycle on Hiawatha last weekend and Amtrak called me two hours before departure to tell me that they were cancelling the bicycle reservation. When I went down to MKE intermodal to see what they could do for me, they told me they'd honor the reservation. :)

I really wish I could take the Coast Starlight -> San Joaquins without a bus transfer. Coast Starlight's scheduled arrival in Sacramento is at 6:48am, the only departing San Joaquins train for the day leaves 20 minutes earlier. Meaning if you need to take SJ you have to wait, take a bus, wait some more, and catch up with another SJ train 3 hours later. I really wish they would run more trains from Sacramento but im sure this is coming in the future.

The northbound route doesn't have a bus connection and just has you wait 3 hours in Martinez. Is this southbound transfer just because they assume they could have a delay so they don't want to hold up the only southbound train from Sac?

The linked document from the article: https://railroads.dot.gov/sites/fra.dot.gov/files/2023-07/FY23%20Q2%20Service%20Quality%20Report_07.12.23_PDFa.pdf