I Travelled Across America by Sleeper Train!.

I'm about to take one of the longest train journeys I've ever done across the entire continental United States. Across 11 states, traveling 3,165 miles and living on board for three days. I'll show you what life is like on board from my cabin, the food and so much more. And this epic adventure starts here in New York at the beautiful Monaghan train station, train 49. It already tells me my car number and which room I'm in so let's head in. So I do have access into the lounge which is literally just up there but I've shown that before on a previous video so I'm gonna get straight on board. This still looks pretty old though. Where you going? And Well, Chicago? Chicago, all the way to the back, last car. It looks like it's a double-decker but it's not quite like that. I'll show you why. Sleeper? Yeah. A? A as in apple? What's the name? Tim? Around the corner, Tim. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard train 49. Sure limited bound for Chicago. Here we go. 7.30, 8 o'clock. Those are your reservation times, so please have a look after me. It is community season, so more than likely you'll be sitting with someone. Your bills are free, mate, nothing giving up. I think she's giving up. Hello, I'm Melanie, I'm your attendant, I'll be with you shortly. Have a look at the menu. Cool, thank you. Get a side salad, ranch or Italian on the side, dessert choice, brownie or butter cake, okay? Okay. And let me know if you're going to eat in your room or if you want to eat in our dining car. And let me know what time. Thank you. I've done Amtrak before. You don't normally get the menu when you get on board. You don't normally get that until you actually get in the dining car. I'll show you that in a minute. I'll wait until we pull out the station when we've got a little bit more light and I'll do the room tour. Okay we're on our way across the entire United States. This is going to be crazy. Thousands of miles and only on two trains. So this train is going to take me to Chicago which should arrive around about half past 10 tomorrow morning. I'll get a chance to do a little bit of sightseeing and then we'll be boarding the train that will then take us to Seattle. So it's Friday evening now and we should arrive around four o'clock Monday afternoon. So yeah quite a long time. Let me give you a tour. Some of this train for less than 24 hours. The next train that I'm going to get I'll be on there longer so I don't want to get too settled but I've already got my pillows for sleeping. If you've been watching the channel for a while you'll know that I've done a couple of Amtrak trains. This is very similar to what I've had before. Some are dirtier. summer cleaner this is obviously quite old but it seems to be one of the cleanest that i've done so first up we've got the seating area this also acts as a bed and so does the one up top don't quote me on the date of this train but i think it's over 10 years old i'm sure someone will tell me in the comments obviously a lot of this stuff is pretty dated but it is clean and this is actually quite comfy and although the view is not that great looking at your sink which i'll come to in a minute You can check out the view that way, and you can check out the view that way, as well as up top. So loads of light. I've got my door, and this one does lock. I had one before where it didn't. A curtain that goes across my little wardrobe. Couple of hangers in there to hang a coat, there's a light in there too. Call for the attendant now, I've got my AC, it's blasting out nicely. Some lighting here, more AC there. Love the little leather armrest. So on the sleeper train there's loads of different room types that you can get. This one is the most expensive, it's the bedroom and it can actually be, there's a door there and you can actually have it as like quite a big bedroom and if you're traveling with the family. Obviously the sink. Hopefully there's hot water. I've been on Amtrak before where I've had no hot water. I've been on Amtrak before where the shower hasn't worked so it'll be interesting to see if that works. Got a plug socket there, lighting, got towels, a little cupboard, light does work, a little hook here to hang your coat. There's storage up there, there's storage also right at the back there and the bed which will come down later on. We can open up some more light here if I want. So there's loads of natural light coming in. I'm not sure how this comes down. Hang on. Is there instructions how to bring this down? Might have to get some help. The main reason why people love these bedrooms is because you get your own private shower. Some of the roommates, you have to like share a shower, which we'll show you later on in the video. But this is quite roomy. But my experience in these have never been that great. Oh dear. Stay. So it's a wet room with your toilet. There's some towels up there. I hope that's cleaning rather than soap suds from a previous person. Maybe? I don't know. Toilet roll is covered otherwise it will get wet. I think it's just one person that can squeeze in here. The last few times I've traveled on Amtrak, the shower has been pointless, the pressure has been pointless, and the temperature has been pointless. So we'll see what this is like later on. As you can see floor space wise there isn't too much of it. There's still quite a lot but it just means that you have to travel light but if you've got bigger cases you can store them but you have to store them quite far away from your room. Apparently you step on this there you go and it also comes with a table that extends. And also a chessboard. So it's five, six and seven to choose for dinner. I've chose six o'clock, middle, probably quite busy. And you do have to sit with other people. So if you are traveling on your own, and even if you are in a couple, sometimes they sit you on like a pod of four. Here's tonight's dinner menu. So we've got salad to start. We've got slow braised beef. We've got pan artisan meatballs. Buttered chicken, Asian barbecue glazed salmon, I think you can probably tell which one I'm going to go for, and then there's chicken alfredo. I'm going to go for the salmon. Asian barbecue sauce, broccoli, lemongrass, scented rice, shiitake mushroom, carrots, peppers, sounds pretty good that. One thing that I've always been quite impressed about and that's the food. Especially the desserts. There's two options for dessert. There's vanilla butter cake and there's chocolate brownie. If you've never tried butter cake, you are missing out. It is divine, obviously very fattening, very sweet. I'm gonna have that. Meals are all included. The soft drinks are included, but you can get some alcohol. You have to pay for it after you get your complimentary one at the beginning. We're heading west. And it's fall at the moment in New York autumn. There was some early season snow reported further up near Montana as we get through there. Whether that's still going to be around when I go through, I doubt it. I think most of the trip is going to be pretty mild. It's only been an hour. We left New York and we're literally just cruising up the Hudson basically. I think the next stop is going to be Poughkeepsie. It's crazy when you look at it on the map, right? That's where we are at the minute. And we're heading right across the United States. It got dark pretty quick, so just after six o'clock, which means it's dinner time, my allocated slot. 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Starting off with a drink. I've got a salad and a bread roll. For the main I have gone for the salmon so I'm looking forward to this. Some people might find it uncomfortable but I do kind of enjoy just like sitting at a table and meeting new people for the first time and having a conversation over a meal. It can be a little bit awkward though while you know you're eating but it's not for everyone. Real stainless steel cutlery. The plates however though are plastic. Thank you. You're welcome. this smells amazing let's give this a try that's good almost tastes like a hot honey oh a little bit of a kick to it as well melts in your mouth it tastes really good so we're just coming up to our first half decent stop albany and we're going to be here for about 45 minutes i can't get off the train because i was in another dinner otherwise i would have got off and had a walk around but it's not really much at the station really you can't go wrong with this butter cake Thank you. So good, not moving about much. Certainly gonna, I think I'm gonna put a little bit of weight on this train. Always makes me nervous stepping outside the train for any amount of time when we're here for such a short time because I'm always worried it's gonna go without me so I'm gonna go back in. Certainly a short stay anyway. Now it's handy to know they've got a coffee station and somewhere to get some water. This is the communal shower. Looks a little bit better than mine actually, I'm not going to lie. I always forget I can open it by doing that. I thought I'd gone too far then. Dinner was really good. So now it's time for a shower and then bed. Now obviously I've got the option of the top or the bottom. Now depending on who you are, you sleep better on the top than you do the bottom. Or some people say you sleep better on the bottom than you do on the top. It's going to move around a lot. I'm not a very good sleeper on the train. And not to mention, all these do bang and rattle. So I've brought some earplugs with me as well. The beds are made and I tell you what when you get up close to the walls you see just how dirty they are. I mean there's bits of there's bits of food everywhere. Well aboard Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited train 49 en route to Chicago's Union Station. Once again our next station stop will be Skanectyin in about 20 minutes. Right ah there we go. Temperature's actually okay now it's running it's not super hot but It wasn't bad, actually, as the shower went on, the hotter the water got. Let's go check out the beds. Well, two options for sleeping, down here or up there. I'll check what that feels like in a minute, but I can adjust the lighting to have it romantic. There's a blue light. Obviously, I'll just turn these off. I can dim them, have them super bright, the reading light on, off. This seems pretty comfy. Let's go and check out up the top. Obviously, slightly bigger bed down there, narrower up here. I don't think it makes a difference. In some ways it feels more, it feels worse at the bottom than it does at the top but I mean literally the whole toilet thing is shaking off the walls. The door to next door is shaking, the cabinets are shaking. I mean yeah I know it's a train but it's like thank god I've got my earplugs. Loads of storage up there and above the toilet. These are supposed to um keep you in so you don't fall out. Whack your hand on that in the middle of the night. I don't know what's worse. They're both like that. And then there's the bottom bunk. When you look at the mattress, it's quite thin. It's like a mattress topper because you've got all that. This mattress is pretty thick. And yeah, seen better days. Morning. I slept okay last night. I think once we got out of Pennsylvania, the track definitely got a lot better and smoother. The only issue I had was the toilet. So somehow the toilet door has locked and I can't open it and obviously I didn't want to call the attendant at like two in the morning so I had to get up and walk all the way down like seven or eight carriages to find a toilet because I couldn't find one. I need some coffee. So overnight we traveled through three states Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio and we've literally just crossed into the state of Indiana. I got for breakfast then Continental, crepes, or a three cheese omelette. Okay, we've departed Baltimore, Indiana. Next stop, approximately 50 minutes, 5-0 minutes, can be inserted. So I went for the Continental breakfast, which was a breakfast sandwich, which was sausage, egg, and cheese on a bagel, fruit loops, And some orange juice. Could have gone for a coffee as well. And I have to say, that blueberry muffin was hot. And they gave me some butter as well, and I stuck that on there. Wow, that tasted amazing. So far, the food has been pretty good. It'll be interesting to see what happens on our next train. so i'm not showing you too much of the train because we don't have too much time because we're going to be pulling into Chicago in a little bit but the next train that i'm going on the Empire Builder so i'll show you the whole tour tomorrow so we're in Indiana at the moment we're going to cross over the state to head into Chicago in about an hour's time and then we've got a little bit of time before i have to get my next train so we might do a little bit of sightseeing we're about an hour and 20 minutes away from Chicago and in 40 minutes we should be crossing We're crossing over to Central Time. I was on that train for 19 hours and 20 minutes, so we've got a layover of about 4 hours, find somewhere to dump my bags, and then we'll go and have a quick look round Chicago. Wow. Has that been in an accident, or what? That's hit something. Look at that. In fact, yeah, that's definitely hit something. Some of these trains are really battered and used. When you're sandwiched between two trains like this, you can smell some pretty gross stuff. You've got old, you've got new. Look at that. That guy loves the horn. Something we don't have in the UK, carousels for bags at the train station. He loves the horn, that guy. So you can see where I started, New York. And we headed up this way, went past Lake Erie and we're now here and all I've got to do left is go right across the rest of the states all the way up to Seattle. Union Station is pretty impressive. Oh just here. I step up get your wristband. This will allow you access to come in and out. Okay. Luggage storage to your right, restrooms are to your left and the snacks and beverages are complimentary, okay? Great, thank you. Thank you. So this is what I'm heading on next, the legendary Empire Builder to Seattle. Oh. Complimentary snacks and coffee, you can relax and watch an old movie. Look, wow, look at that. Don't make him like that anymore. Let's head out. You can see the classic trains and here you can see all of the iconic trains that Amtrak do. So you can see where we're about to go, Chicago, Minneapolis, Glacier Park and Seattle. We did that one last year from San Francisco to Chicago. And of course the one we've just done, Lake Shore Limited, Chicago. There are other ones that you can do, City of New Orleans that goes from Chicago to Orleans. The Capital Limited, Chicago to Washington DC and the Southwest Chief from Chicago to LA. We're heading to something I've always wanted to see. I've never been in Chicago long enough and that's the lakefront and also the famous shiny bean here in Chicago. It's a 20 minute walk that way so let's go. Using the maps it's not that far from here. I can see it just through those trees. You can't guarantee the weather and I was hoping that I'd be able to see this on a clear blue sky day when the sun's out because it's, it looks more striking. I've only ever seen this in movies and on photos and do you know what, it's, it's actually smaller in real life than I thought it would be. We've got to do what everyone does and touch it. Trippy. So I'm just walking down to the lakefront and then I came across this building with these stones in the wall and noticed that's from the Great Pyramid of Giza. That's from St Peter's Cathedral in Rome and that is from the Houses of Parliament in England. How random! And here we are, Ohio Street Beach. This was the closest one to Union Station. So this is my first time to one of the Great Lakes in America. I've always wanted to visit Lake Michigan. I mean it is so huge. I mean from where I am right now it doesn't really show off the lake as much as it could do because of the breakwater but it's got a great shot of Chicago. Sears Tower, sandy beach. How warm is the water? Do you know what's really weird? Your senses. Being from the UK when I'm by a beach and water it's the sea, the ocean and you get that smell. Here, you don't get anything, bearing in mind in the winter this gets so cold, there's like little mini icebergs and this can freeze in the winter, it's insane. Someone's having a photo shoot over there, that woman in the dress, can you see that? Well I thought I would jump on a bike and I would cycle to get some lunch. So Chicago is famous for its hot dogs. And it's also famous for its humongous deep dish pizza, which is basically like a pie. I think a lot of the places you have to like order ahead and it takes about 30 minutes to cook it, but you can get it by the slice. And I'm going to try and find one now because they look amazing. Pretty fattening, but I'm going to try one. Look at that. Apparently this is one of, or if not the most haunted hotel in Chicago, the Congress Plaza Hotel. Just look at that. I'm eating it on the street because it was just too busy in there but let's give this a try. I mean it's ridiculous. There was so much cheese on that. It's like that thick full of cheese. That's good. It's good. 731 Sleeper Room, A as in Apple Store, hand toilet. The other train that looked like it was a double decker, this is a full-on double decker superliner. I'm in a again a little bit different to the other one layout wise I mean it's still like a sofa couch here there's a chair there in the other one I had the toilet door there but in here it's around the corner and it does feel like there's just a bit more room by the toilet door still got the fold-out table first impressions though yeah leather leather seats but it's really dirty in here there's crumbs everywhere all over here especially the amount of money that you spend on these i just hope that the water is going to be hot i mean these don't look like they've been vacuumed hoovered at all crumbs and food all on here that's really bad it's quite an old train then but still got a closet here my wardrobe is slightly bigger Lightstemperature Nice leather. It's nice leather. Yeah it does look quite old doesn't it? If you're charging your phone you need a really long wire, hardly any soap left in there. Let's have a look in the shower, yep same size as the other one although this one does come with shampoo, body wash, it's quite nice, fluffy towels up there. And you're thrown to bathroom size pretty much the same. I think you're not going to get any more than well Actually, maybe you might be able to get two in here at a squeeze But I think the reason why it feels a little bit bigger is because I'm right at the end I mean, yeah, it's a bit old and grubby in places and it definitely needs a hoover at least there's somewhere where I can Store my luggage without getting it in the way Even though the other one felt older, it was a lot cleaner It's like there's crumbs everywhere in here. It does feel like a bit of a disconnect, doesn't it? You get your first class service, you get the lounge, which is amazing, and then you get in here and it's quite dirty, shame. And we're off on our 2,200 mile journey. We're gonna cross eight states, three different time zones. We're going to pass through the Cascade Mountains, the Glacier National Park, or near there anyway. So I'm on here for two days. Now that it's just after half past three, I don't think there's lunch, but there is a snack bar here. There's a viewing car as well, which is quite cool. And obviously there's a restaurant car as well. So there'll be dinner tonight, breakfast, lunch and dinner tomorrow, and then breakfast and maybe lunch before I arrive in Seattle. It's really weird when you look out the window, you don't feel that you're up high compared to when you're lower down, it doesn't feel any different. I don't know why there's a flannel been shoved in there, maybe I'll find out why later. Not gonna lie, this is comfy and the leather does feel much nicer. Now actually the sun's coming in, it doesn't actually feel that bad. So dinner's in about 45 minutes, but I'll give you a full tour of the train that I'm in tomorrow. There is a break tonight where you can get out and walk around, a fresh air break as they call it but that's going to be quite late so I'll probably get out of bed before that. I'm looking forward to seeing how the bed compares to last night as well. So this time dinner was community seating so you had to sit with other people and as I was just traveling alone I had to sit with three others. The food as always was pretty good. I went for coconut shrimp to start followed by the chicken which Which tasted like... Chips sticks on the top and then the dessert I went for the white chocolate cobbler cheesecake I've got a laptop with me and some other camera gear and I do have to leave it in the room But there is no lock on the door. You can lock it from the inside, but you can't lock it from the outside So I guess you have to trust your neighbors Well, the bed has been made pretty much the same size same width as the other one I don't know whether the leather makes it a little bit more comfortable. Not sure Lots of padding so you don't knock your head, I don't know if you can see that. So we're literally on the border of Wisconsin, we've just crossed over the border to Minnesota and I think we're going to gain another hour as well overnight. I'll let you know how I sleep, see you in the morning. Morning, well last night was pretty rocky and yeah it was quite tough to sleep last night. Generally I think I slept better than I did last night but... The rattling is in different places so yeah thank god I've got earplugs though because that really does soften it a little bit you can still hear it but it's not as bad and it's easier to sleep if I hadn't had them I didn't have earplugs then yeah the rattling would be um and then it doesn't it's really it's funny because it doesn't stay in one place like at the minute it's over there but then sometimes it will get really bad like over here not quite sure why I think I think we're about to gain another hour soon. And a full day on the train. I'm struggling with room in here at the minute like my bags either side and a very small area just by the door there's that tiny area there by the chair and when the other bed's down there's two people in here this would be a struggle. I mean it's a struggle for me as it is just getting through here and just like trying to wash my face but that's the size of these trains. Sun's just coming up and right now we're pretty much halfway there I would say or just over actually, we're now in North Dakota. Can I go for the Amtrak French toast, please, with a side of bacon? OK. I didn't make that decision. Can I get an orange juice, please? OK. Thank you. So it's not too busy, but they still insisted on me sitting with other people. I did ask if I could just sit on my own while there's no one else around, which they didn't really like, but I've managed to get a seat on my own anyway. But I've managed to get a seat on my own anyway. Fresh air break for the first time in god knows how many hours we're at Milan. It's crazy when you see the outside of the train like this. We're here for 45 minutes and they're actually doing some refueling at the minute and normally I can never actually get to the front of the train because I always get stopped, let's see if I can get there now have a have a look what's been pulling us It's crazy just how long the train is. I mean, I don't know whether you can see down there, but as far as your eye can see, the train stretches, unless that's something else. Imagine if I got it wrong and he said four to five minutes, because I've left my phone and everything on there, because they're refueling. I want to go up on the bridge, see if I can get a better shot of the train. It's currently 8.30 in the morning. There's the train. Please tell me that's not our train. I'm going to run back, but there's our train from above. I better run, just in case. I'm sure that wasn't our train, but never mind. I'm having my nightmare, missing the train and then stuck here with no money, no nothing. Let's grab a coffee and then I'll give you a tour of the train. Look the little station where you get your cream and sugar. To take it, you can buy one of these. This Seattle Skyline, look at that. You know you should definitely do this journey if it's a special day for you like it's your birthday or maybe celebrating Christmas or New Year's Eve or something because you gain an hour um pretty much every day so we're gonna go into mountain time in about three hours where clocks will go back an hour and then the early hours of the morning tomorrow we'll go into pacific time and we'll put the clocks back another hour. Not great for my jet lag but makes the day longer. Especially if you like being on trains. Okay, let's do a little bit of a tour of my carriage. We'll start upstairs actually. Oh, just before I go further, these are the roomettes. They're actually quite nice and obviously this comes down so you can have a bed up there as well as this folds out into a bed too. But charging, reading lights, it's cleaner than my room. The only downside is they don't come with the toilet. We can go down here, and then it saves me going through the restaurant, I think. Maybe not. Let's go in here. Oh right, so we've got, that was actually a really big communal shower. headroom down there. And then these are just toilets on there. I do have to go through the restaurant, can't I? To get to the observation deck. Or observation car. All right. Imagine if you get your foot caught in there. It'd be painful, innit? The observation deck is split up into two parts the seating outwards and then the general communal seating. So the seats are all positioned in different ways to enjoy most of the scenery. There's a bar up here as well. Obviously this part isn't that busy at the moment because well the view isn't that exciting. We're going to go through the Rockies later this afternoon and I think that's when this will get very busy. Pretty cool the way they arrange their seats like this though in different angles it's quite nice. By the way if you are enjoying the video I'd really appreciate the thumbs up and if you haven't already there's about 40% of you that are still not subscribed so make sure you do and also click the notification bell so you know when I upload a new video. Let's head down here, I think, I'm trying to find the cafe bar, I don't think it's down here, or is it? You can record 7.31 and 7.30. No, this is where you just store your luggage. We will open the door for the acting. More toilets, great little dressing room. We have some Montana coming up next. Thank you, folks. Wow, before you ask I knew there was no one in here but this is a ladies makeup area? Oh they have a toilet in here as well. Got a stool to sit on. Let's check out one of these chairs. I said they're similar to premium economy like on an aircraft but actually they're bigger than that. It's actually really comfy. Lights, an AC and then your footrests. They're pretty decent actually. Let's find this cafe bar that should be around here somewhere. So I think that area was closed. Maybe it's closed until the dinner service is closed. I'm not going to lie, walking through the train is quite smelly. You can smell the toilets in some parts more than others. Like for example, there's no open windows on here, so it's all AC, hence why you get fresh air brakes. So when you just go through like the coach part, it's a bit stuffy. It's a bit fresher as you come through here, but what I've noticed is that you really do smell the toilet. And I said this last time, I think that my neighbour has had some toilet issues because it's smelled really bad earlier. Or it might just be the whole sewer system of the train, I don't know. This is Glasgow, Montana and the tagline reads in the middle of nowhere. This place is pretty small and actually it's four and a half hours away from the nearest big town stroke city. So if you're still hungry between breakfast and lunch and lunch and dinner, There is a snack bar open, this is also open for coach passengers. Now if meal times are getting to you and you don't want to be sitting there with strangers making conversation all the time, you can actually order food to your room. So I'm going to do that for lunch and I've ordered a caesar salad, a bit of a dessert and a coke, so let's see what it looks like. Okay lunch is served, caesar salad, coke and also a brownie. Caesar dressing, knife and fork, some pepper, tomatoes on a Caesar salad. Smells good though. So you don't have to do the community seating if you don't want to if you're here with somebody else. I think the worst time to do it is at breakfast when you've just woken up and maybe you don't want to chat. I got lucky this morning even though they were trying to force me onto a table or two that were already there a couple and I was like it's gonna invade their space a little bit so We've just arrived in Havre, Montana, and I think this is probably going to be the last fresh air break of the day, whilst it's daylight at least. It's that time again, dinner. Let's see what's on offer tonight. We're here for dinner, on the other side. Sir, now, is that where you're here? Oh, this one here? Yeah, this one here, yeah. I've been on Amtrak trains before and normally they change the menu but tonight it was the same menu as last night. I skipped the starter tonight and I went straight for the main course which was the steak which tasted amazing. It had this beautiful red wine sauce and they've run out of the cheesecake but I was very happy with the chocolate cake which was absolutely divine. So a little bit gutted because it's getting dark and I thought we would probably get to Glacier Park. Just on the outskirts and then over towards the Rocky Mountains when it was still light but that looks like that's now not going to happen. And that was one of the parts of the trip that I was looking forward to the most. I mean I've been lucky enough to travel across the Rocky Mountains a couple of times actually by Amtrak and the Canadian so I'm a little bit glad I can't see it this time but I'll be heading over it as I sleep. So yeah, Not much else to see now, so I'm off to bed and I'll see you in the morning for the final stretch. We might get some views in the morning actually, for the final stretch to Seattle. So I'm off to bed, good morning. Good morning from Washington State, our 12th final state as we head towards Seattle. Scenery here looks a lot different to what it was like yesterday. We've crossed over the Rocky Mountains overnight, the Glacier National Park. Let's go get some breakfast. So this morning's breakfast, I went for scrambled eggs and bacon. I have to say, the food on board has been amazing. Those scrambled eggs, I think, were cooked fresh. So our last stretch to Seattle, we should get in about 11.30. I think the time now is about nine o'clock, so last couple of hours. And the scenery looks a lot different today. So I thought I would spend the last couple of hours at the observation car, but they've taken it off. They've taken it off at the part where it's going to be most scenic. Quite fun actually. So yeah, back to my room to look out the window then. Bye room. Hey, have a good day. Thank you. Thank you so much for everything, so much appreciated. Well we actually arrived 15 minutes early. Well that was an epic trip and a half hours on two different trains across the entire United States over 3,100 miles covering 11 different states and you could say half of that time I was probably asleep now depending on the time of year that you travel you'll probably get to see some of the views that I didn't for example if I'd have left Seattle to go to New York I would have definitely seen through the Rockies and through the Glacier National Park, however because of the time we got through there quite late it is an expensive trip it's on two iconic trains the Empire Builder and of course Lake Shore Limited now the longest one previous to this was the Canadian which i'll come to in just a little bit now being one of the longest train journeys that i have ever done i'll come to the price in a minute but let's break down the first part of my journey on the Lake Shore Limited train great thing about that is that it was clean it was very old the food on board was great the staff were great found some of the restaurant staff not that friendly on that particular train obviously they were up against it they had a job to do they had a lot of people to sit but they could have been just a little bit more friendlier for example it was quite funny actually on the first part of my trip Lake Shore Limited i put the bed down at the top just to kind of like just to see what it felt like and the lady in the morning told me off for pulling the bed down even though it's just a sheet over the mattress but she moaned at me because now she has to remake it even though i've paid for the whole room so i made sure that when i went on the Empire Builder i didn't check out the upper bunk now if i'm being honest the first part of the trip the bed was quite soft the second part The leather seats were a little bit more firmer. The mattresses were very thin and the first one was pretty disgusting. Now although it looked a lot nicer than the first train, the Empire Builder had an issue with there was a lot of food and crumbs and I know the turnaround could be quite quick but you would have thought for the money that you spend they could get out a vacuum and just like just go around it a little bit because it is not nice when you're sitting down in other people's crumbs and there's food on the floor from others. If you've been watching the channel for a while, you'll know this is not my first time travelling Amtrak, and the food has always been amazing. The steak last night was great, the dessert's amazing, the coffee in the morning, although I couldn't get it on the first leg of the journey because the coffee machines were broken, the second leg, my attendant had the coffee ready for me bang on 6am, and the coffee was hot and it was good. I was a little bit gutted that they took the viewing car off last night, so when this morning we were going through some of those amazing views, We had to just stay in our rooms, we couldn't go to the viewing car. The cafe car had been taken off as well. Let's talk about the community seating because it's not everyone's cup of tea. You can have food in your room if you don't like doing that but what I found interesting was if there was like four or five tables that were completely free, obviously they were getting them set up for the next people but there was a couple that were eating together and I felt quite... odd about being pushed onto them really and sitting there and eating my dinner. It's a shame that even though there was all these other tables free they couldn't have just moved it around a little bit better but I'm sure they have their reasons why they do it. But it's always great to meet complete strangers on board and by the end of the trip you become friends. So how much did it come to? The first part of my trip on the Lakeshore Limited came to $2,028. The second part of my trip, the Empire Builder, which I was on for a lot longer, came to $2,365, bringing the grand total to $4,393. If you want to see me head across Canada in a very luxurious train with some fantastic scenery and food, check the video here. Or why not Amtrak's California Zephyr here? Give the video a thumbs up. Do tell us your thoughts in the comments below. I'll see you next time.