Eva has an overly romantic view of train travel.

[conuly]

Nevertheless, her big dream for her life is to ride in a sleeper car to... somewhere. Anywhere.

Tickets to San Diego (to visit family, of course) would be $2200 for the lot of us. One way.

Where the heck can I go that's cheaper than cross country, that satisfies the desire to spend a day in a train sleeping and eating in the dining car (so a jaunt to Boston won't do it), and that has something for us to do once we get there? I'm entertaining all options!

Comments

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Depends on what you mean by "local". There are certainly routes that can and are used as commuter routes (Los Angeles to San Diego comes to mind, or the Acela train on the Eastern corridor). However, Amtrak only stops at one central station per city (or sometimes two for larger cities), so you couldn't commute within a city on Amtrak. For that you'd have to switch over to buses or taxis or whatever.

I suspect the policies are designed to prevent runaways from hopping the train to the next state, but that's just a guess.