Those of you that have AmTrak'd cross-country (East-West/West-East), how was your experience?
Those of you that have AmTrak'd cross-country (East-West/West-East), how was your experience?
Did you enjoy it? Was it worth it? How were you able to pull it off?
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Not cross country, Seattle to Portland was bad enough.
Amtrak doesn't have "right of way" on the rails, which means if a freight train needs to get through, the passenger train pulls off onto a side rail to let the freight through.
We sat for 3 hours in the middle of nowhere waiting for a freight train.
It only takes 3 hours to drive that trip.
When was this? They've recently changed it on the corridor routes so Cascades is mandated to get right of way now. I have taken it about 6 times and haven't had any issues
Oh, years ago now.
give it another shot, Amtrak has upped their game especially on the Cascades cooridor. With the point defiance bypass completed we're now down to 3 1/2 hours to Portland.
Only thing for now - they're currently upgrading their rolling stock for Cascades and they're still using the crappy "Horizon" cars, but the new ones are actually expected this year, and they're supposedly going to be really, really nice