Passenger Trains > Trip Report - Amtrak 6 (15) Sacramento to Chicago

My family's trip on the October 15 California Zephyr from Sacramento to Chicago was delightful.  6 left Emeryville 30 minutes late but arrived in Chicago 4 minutes early.  The dining car staff and our sleeping car attendant were outstanding - very engaging and helpful.  The weather was perfect and the scenery, especially through Colorado, was fabulous.  My one complaint: the windows in all our rooms were disappointingly dirty.   
Here's some photos and a video.  The video has four scenes: 6's arrival in Sacramento, passing 5 in Colorado (I ended up on the "wrong" side of the train, but it turned out OK), passing the Rocky Mountaineer shortly after that, and my grandson enjoying a NS southbound in his first trip to Marion, Ohio.  

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Mount Pleasant, Burlington and Chicago.

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Fall on  a  train  hard  to  beat. Do  you hang  out  in Marion!!??  Rail  crossroads  of  the Mid  Atlantic!!

Marion and the video.

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Great post!  Thank you!
 

Nice pictures and nice to hear something nice about a long distance experience.  Did Amtrak actually wash the train windows? 

I think the last passenger train to Marion, Ohio was the Erie Lackawanna's Lake Cities in 1970.  Is the old EL (formerly Erie) Marion  station the site of the last pictures?

I recently took a big Amtrak trip on the Sunset Limited, city of New Orleans, Lakeshore Limited, Maple Leaf, Empire Builder, Coast Starlight and San Joaquin. All of the trains had filthy windows except for the San Joaquin. Pretty disappointing.

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SanDiegan Wrote:
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> I recently took a big Amtrak trip on the Sunset
> Limited, city of New Orleans, Lakeshore Limited,
> Maple Leaf, Empire Builder, Coast Starlight and
> San Joaquin. All of the trains had filthy windows
> except for the San Joaquin. Pretty disappointing.
>
> Posted from iPhone

Dirty windows for a good chunk of change on that trip right there. Utterly ridiculous and absolutely so direspectful to passengers. Amtrak should be ashamed and they are not. Mindboggling. Absolutely mindboggling. This has been well over 18 months of a problem!

btheaker Wrote:
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> Mount Pleasant, Burlington and Chicago.


Nice to see a good trip report.

And in case anyone happens across this like I have, the BJRY 714 is found in Ottumwa, not Mount Pleasant.