This week, we travel across America with Amtrak!
Train 1
Date of Travel: March 2022
Class of Travel: Superliner Roomette (First Class)
Rolling Stock: P42DC with Superliner I and II
Type of Service: Long Distance Train
Operator: Amtrak
Train Number: 422 Texas Eagle
Origin: Los Angeles Union Station, California, United States of America
Destination: Chicago Union Station, IL, United States of America
Train 2
Date of Travel: March 2022
Class of Travel: Roomette
Rolling Stock: P42DC with Superliner I and II
Operator: Amtrak
Service type: Long Distance Train
Train Number: 30 Capitol Limited
Origin: Chicago Union Station, Illinois, United States of America
Destination: Washington Union Station, Washington D.C., United States of America
Total cost: $1,350 (£1,120, €1,270) for 2 people.
Texas Eagle Traditional Dining Menu: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/menus/routes/Long-Distance-Dining-Car-Menu-1122.pdf
Texas Eagle Flexible Dining Menu: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/menus/routes/Flexible-Dining-Menu-1022.pdf
Capitol Limited Menu: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/menus/routes/Flexible-Dining-Menu-1022.pdf
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36 Comments
What a great trip and review. I've just know Capitol Limited using Superliner.
I am guessing that "Flexible Dining" should be named the Vacuum cuz it SUCKS!
I appreciate the reports dear. I just can't for the life of me understand why people would like to travel across the US in these 1950s style Amtrak ways. The food looks disgusting for such a long trip. Good we all have a choice.
Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but alternatively, you could have taken the Sunset Limited and the Crescent to get between Los Angeles and Washington with a transfer in New Orleans instead of Chicago. 😉
flex dining sucks.
I’ve been to El Paso quite a few times as I have family that live there. I’ve even made a few friends that live across the border in Juarez
Rather you than me. Looks like an endurance test. Lousy food, cramped accommodation, extortionately expensive and surprisingly drab scenery. Thanks for sharing your adventures. You’ve eliminated a possibility for me Dylan! 😆
Texas is dull. I've definitely enjoyed the Southwest Chief trip. We are definitely pushing to return full meal service to all the trains and access for the coach passengers.
Luckily our current president loves riding the trains so we have a friend in the White House.
Beautiful footage towards the end of what I assume was the upper reaches of the Potomac River.
Dude, I like your videos, but you have no idea how annoying your announcer voice is. You constantly use a "singsong" voice, which not only is unnatural sounding, it is really irritating. This is a pattern that is characterized by artificially wide swings in pitch and used by smarmy disc jockeys. Take the time to learn how to use more natural variations in your pitch within sentences, so you sound more professional and less insane. Thank you.
Dylan… an excellent video and so very interesting as usual….but it must be said, that the food on this trip looked dreadful !!! Amtrak need to up their game….
Oh my! 🙂 A direct flight from LAX to DCA takes about 7 hours and US$200. But go Amtrak if you must! 🙂
For the scenery, you should ride the Cardinal between Chicago and Washington — much more daylight time in the mountain country and especially in the eye-popping New River Gorge.
Hey Dylan. Sorry for the horrible American food. Now you see why I travel Europe. Hope to do the Caledorian London to Edinburgh trip. Better food. Better scenery. lol
This reminds me of the silver streak film
Have to say Dylan, you are not selling it for me. Maybe it’s improved in the year since you made the journey but I can’t say I’m rushing to book a long distance Amtrak service after seeing this. It looked good at first with the Sightseer Lounge and proper catering but once those options split off it looked rather dreadful. I went coast to coast in Canada last year with The Ocean and The Canadian and loved the whole experience. Amtrak doesn’t look in the same league as VIARail. I hope it’s just a post-Covid reset and that the services are improving but on he evidence of this I think crossing the USA by rail might be more of a chore than a pleasure.
An amazing trip. Maybe you could share a video on how you planned and put together your visit to the USA last year? You got some much out of it and some tips on the logistics would be really good.
I am perplexed why they feel that the dining car should go on to New Orleans from San Antonio instead of the much longer leg to Chicago…especially since that is where the original service is intended to terminate. Makes zero sense.
The meal downgrade resulting from the split of the train is one of the reasons I’ve never taken the Texas Eagle/Sunset Ltd out of LA. That combined with the late 10pm departure, make it an unfavorable choice.
Seems like it makes more sense if you're stopping somewhere in the south.
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Epic trip, all that food not good for the figure
great train video bro
Please no more Amtrak reviews.
When I heard Ohio I went straight to the comments lol
🤣😂 this is old…it's wet , rainy and chilly in LA.
Pathetic food the last few days, sending the dining car to new Orleans is stupid
You traveled on the Sunset Limited train that runs 3x weekly from LA to New Orleans.
At San Antonio, TX, a portion of the Sunset Limited is sliced off and attached to the Texas Eagle that runs daily between San Antonio and Chicago.
Alternatively, you could have just continued on the Sunset Limited until New Orleans and then taken the Crescent from New Orleans to Washington DC.
Which railroad originally opened L A union station? , can't remember if it was UP or ATSF
Seems posted after one year, nice clipping.
Now try to imagine a high-speed train. 300 km/h. LA-Washington 20 hours top. I drove same time from Manchester (ferry) to eastern Czechia 😀
Disgusting food and no Sightseer Lounge on the Eagle and Capitol Ltd? Amtrak continues to hasten its own slide further into irrelevance.
love the reflection in the window around min 21
At 22.:16 you passed F Scott and Zelda Fitzgeralds' graves at St Marys Church.
What happened to the audio! It's over mouduling everytime you speak dude
The Amtrak Southwest Chief and Capitol Limited are used to be the national chief 1997-98