Biden is no lunch bucket/Amtrak riding middle class Joe that he sold himself as... He is an evil corrupt politician who has been owned by China for years...
You're not supposed to bring your own, but if you know the menu you can just buy the same drinks they sell in the cafe car before you board and drink with complete impunity.
On Greyhound, drinking is furtive and illicit. On planes,…
If you’re willing to take VIA to Windsor, take the tunnel bus to Detroit, spend 6 hours in Detroit and then Amtrak to Chicago, it’ll cost you around $100 one way.
My Amtrak train is going like 20 mph right now, apparently because we're stuck behind both a freight train and a Metra (Chicago commuter train that makes a ton of stops). I don't understand how it's 2024 and we still have such terrible rail infrastructure in the U.S.
Rail advocates are flyering outside of King Street Station to call for an expansion of Amtrak Cascades — the passenger line that runs from Portland to Seattle to Vancouver BC. They say that WSDOT has not been ambitious enough in scaling up service amid a climate crisis.
I drove Hannah to the train station in downtown Pittsburgh early this morning. She is taking Amtrak back to her home in Connecticut. Nice having her around for a few days...
Somehow I didn’t know how entertained a toddler could be here for an hour.
Also, seeing Amtrak cruise by on the drive home has me needing to touch base again with some folks on commuter rail lines from downtown through eastern Jackson County.