Amtrak Across America (We Didn't Make It)

Watch this video to see what happened when we tried to complete our journey across the United States by Rail!

Our trip began back in Seattle when we boarded Amtrak’s Empire Builder for 48 hours. We enjoyed some of America’s most breathtaking scenery along the way before arriving in Chicago, but now it’s time to complete our rail journey across the continent to get home to Greensboro, NC.

Today, we’ll leave Chicago for the 24 hour journey to Washington, DC onboard Amtrak’s Cardinal Train. The Cardinal passes through Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and DC. We’ll travel through the very heart of Appalachia and the Valley of Virginia along the way to our nation’s capital.

From there, we’ll spend eight more hours on the Carolinian for our final leg home to Greensboro.

All in, that’s 80 hours or more than three days! Well, at least that was our plan.

Our 24 hours on the Cardinal would be spent in an Amtrak Viewliner II Bedroom, which we’ll explore in depth in this video. We'll even offer an Amtrak food review.

Unfortunately, an Amtrak Delay got in the way of our plans and we had to change them at the last minute. Watch the video to find out what happened on this Amtrak Adventure!

Train travel in USA isn't always perfect and we'll show you exactly what we did when our plans didn't work out. We'll give you some train travel tips along the way to make the most of your Amtrak train trip.

We made the most of our delayed train, even though in meant we couldn’t achieve our goal of traveling by train across the USA.

0:00 Introduction
1:33 Amtrak Metropolitan Lounge in Chicago
2:22 Boarding Amtrak Cardinal
4:37 Amtrak Viewliner II Measurements
7:12 Bad News Begins
8:42 A New Plan Emerges

Don’t miss our Amtrak Empire Buidler Trip
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MUSIC:
For Some Time (Instrumental Version) - Daniel Gunnarsson
Down by the Creek - Victor Lunderg
Deep and Abiding (Instrumental Version) - Victor Lundberg
Into Pieces (Instrumental Version) - Amos Noah
On the Road - Isobelle Walton
Waterslide (Tribute Version) - Loving Caliber