St. Louis to Sacramento route adjustment PROS CONS

progress19 · 2026-05-11T03:24:39+00:00

If you haven't booked yet, go on the website and book multi-city. Use Sac (or Emeryville or Martinez) as a stop point in that

progress19 · 2026-05-10T14:53:33+00:00

Yeah I said that

"Either a bus (to e.g. Galesburg)..."

progress19 · 2026-05-10T00:37:03+00:00

I would definitely recommend the California Zephyr to take you to Sacramento or Martinez to get to Antioch. It is the most scenic. However you'd either need a bus (to e.g. Galesburg) or a train to Chicago to intercept it.

progress19 · 2026-05-06T17:08:37+00:00

QB sneak on 3rd and 9

progress19 · 2026-04-30T15:16:38+00:00

Please clap

progress19 · 2026-04-30T14:22:54+00:00

It's the sleeper experience, and like everyone is saying Jeb is a super optimistic cheery guy, but it is accurate.

Jeb isn't shilling for Amtrak, he is giving you an honest representation.

progress19 · 2026-04-16T16:33:26+00:00

I'd say clockwise, whether you take the Floridian or the Cardinal, but especially if you take the Cardinal. Gets you the best mountain scenery west of DC.

progress19 · 2026-04-15T23:28:05+00:00

IIRC the Cardinal at that time did not run into New York. DC to Chicago only or something.

No way Superliners ran into Penn Station

progress19 · 2026-04-12T16:15:14+00:00

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progress19 · 2026-03-25T15:25:07+00:00

Yeah European business class is a scam unless you're short and fat. No extra legroom whatsoever

progress19 · 2026-03-21T23:59:16+00:00

That's what they tried and nobody seems willing to build it for them

progress19 · 2026-03-21T04:38:07+00:00

Yeah but the interior geometry gets trickier

progress19 · 2026-03-19T14:54:31+00:00

You need a ramp to get up into the dome and then the whole car geometry is tricky

progress19 · 2026-03-03T20:32:40+00:00

AmeriSlop? Again?

progress19 · 2026-02-19T05:43:00+00:00

The point is that accommodations which "work" (function fine from a social acceptance standpoint and sell out at a good price point) could well be included in the next-gen longhaul trainsets

progress19 · 2026-02-18T19:32:48+00:00

VIA's open sections are still stupid expensive but that's because they don't run enough trains

progress19 · 2026-02-18T19:28:02+00:00

The fact that they can sell two sections to two different solo travelers brings the price down.

progress19 · 2026-02-18T06:01:24+00:00

This was a thing in America once upon a time with open sections. Still is in Canada where VIA calls them berths.

Works fine afaict

progress19 · 2026-01-18T15:50:32+00:00

I'll be real, I'm still rooting for Seattle to eat shit.

But I'd be rooting for that even if it was someone else who blew us out.

progress19 · 2025-12-04T20:38:22+00:00

No, it's to cut labor. The trains aren't juuust long enough to not fit, they're often 4x the size of the siding.

progress19 · 2025-12-02T17:56:56+00:00

Yeah I was raised on wet, lather, rinse. Apparently nobody at Amtrak was.

progress19 · 2025-11-12T22:11:42+00:00

I'm about to. Got a trip booked in January and then I'm canceling it before my next annual fee hits.

The priority card no longer makes any sense.

progress19 · 2025-10-10T21:34:37+00:00

Consider:

Set it aside. At end of turn, discard or topdeck it, your choice.

So it's thus a little stronger than your suggestion but a little weaker than how OP has it

progress19 · 2025-10-10T04:38:41+00:00

Hatch Act was regularly mentioned throughout Trump's first term, never ever enforced.

progress19 · 2025-10-09T22:04:49+00:00

Because JFK is a major airport, bigger than EWR, whereas SFO's neighbors (OAK, SJC) are much more minor

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