5,200 Miles in THREE Private Rail Cars! [S3: E01]

We take an almost 5,200 rail adventure on board 3 historic luxury private rail cars! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I am beyond grateful to have experienced. A hard-working group of rail fans and volunteers prepared this spectacular journey as a part of the Pride Ride 2023.

Attached to the rear of Amtrak’s California Zephyr, we first travel from Chicago Illinois to San Francisco, California. After 2 nights and 1 day stopped in Oakland, we then are connected to the Coast Starlight for the trip from Oakland, California to Los Angeles. The next day, we complete the final leg of the trip attached to the back of the Southwest Chief.

Our main sleeping car, The Salisbury Beach, was built in 1954 for the Boston and Maine. This car contains 6 open sections, 4 bedrooms and 6 single-occupancy roomettes.

Next in the consist is the former Pennsylvania Railroad’s Colonial Crafts. Built by Pullman Standard in 1949, this car operated on the Broadway Limited, and once carried Elvis Presley to Memphis Tennessee.

Last but not least is the observation car on the rear of our train, the Lamberts Point. This was the oldest car on the train, built in 1918 for the Norfolk and Western Railway. It contains a kitchen, a formal dining room, two lavish bedrooms original designed for railroad executives, as well as the rear observation lounge.

---------------
-----------------
▶️Follow me on:

-----------------
▶️Route of Santa Fe's Super Chief

▶️Amtrak's California Zephyr

▶️More to explore about Pullman:
-----------------
▶️My Other Videos:
-----------------
#RailWeekly #amtrak #amtrakvacation #scenictrainridesusa #SantaFe #SuperChief #Superliner #southwest #Southwestlimited #Amtrakwest #losangeles #Chicago #AT&SF #CaliforniaZephyr #PrivateCar #PrivateRailCar #SalisburyBeach #ColonialCrafts #LambertsPoint #Luxury #Private #goldenagerail #overnightrtrain #sleepingcar #sleepertrain #history #usatraintravel #amtraktrains #amtraktour #traintravel #train #trainvideos #railroad #railhistory #ushistory#colorado #rockymountainrailfan #rockymountains #rockies #coloradorockies #kansas #mississippiriver #midwest #CoastStarlight #AmtrakCharger #PacificOcean #California #PacificOcean #BucketlIstTravel #Travel #FirstClass #PennsylvaniaRailroad #NorfolkAndWestern

[tombiggs]

What a great idea. Thanks for filming, I enjoyed the ride-along.

[caseyvillemodelrailroad]

Great vidio, love the ride.Thanks for the morning coffee...

[katherandefy]

Love this. Will watch all you publish! Excellent.

[billbruff]

Great to have one more source for rail enthusiasts. Keep it up please. Anyone wanting the open section experience the CNN in Canada offers sections on all their trains of the wonderful TransCanada route.

[JohnDoe-jqwy]

All aboard America 1986. Fabulous experience... West to East and South out of Chicago to Dallas and then West to LA, then north to complete the journey. Thank for your powerful creating 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[davidjackson]

Enjoyed the scenic footage coming into SLO. Those PV cars are really the only way to go.

[seanpacificrailroad]

Wow this would be my dream just to take the trip. Great video i totally enjoyed it, and im totally enjoying your channel. I’m totally new and I can’t believe I just found your channel

[Erocks]

Love to see a video on “Booking a private rail car”.
Just adding the companies (website/contact) would be great.

Bucket list item for me.

Great video

[judithwalker]

Could you tell me what the cost is for the trip you took ?

[stevenbenstead]

Sounds wonderful. The only thing I noticed was that the food service was only lightly touched upon. Dining in the diner, whether it be VIA or Amtrak, has always been a highlight for me.

[lawrencewhiting]

What were you meals like and the accommodation?

[michaeljohndennis]

Just like the Venice Simplon Orient Express or the Queen Mary Transatlantic Liner travelling via London & Southampton, it is much better alternative way to travel than flying, even aside from the golden age of air travel - it’s why I choose to use SailRail from Manchester here in the U.K. via Chester and Holyhead to Dublin in my native Ireland

[quintly]

This came out very professional. Must have been a "crew" doing the filming as it couldn't have been very relaxing otherwise. Timing seemed just right, even catching Nevada with greenery. I enjoyed the narration, which was presented accurately. Great job and very lucky to have had the opportunity of the trip of a life time.

[bobm]

Who prepared the meals? Were they different than the other cars? How do you sign up for this tour? Historical and very contemporary. Well done Sir.

[chrisdobrowolski]

Did you see the moon river on the zephyr route, if it was too cold look it up on the internet.

[sivulaa]

That Pullman setup is what viarail uses in thier current consists

[steampipe]

This is also my lifetime bucket list trip. Is there a way this might be repeated? I am interested to sign up.

[johnballantyne]

The State Railways of Thailand (SRT) offer many trains everyday with excellent section sleeping options. Great accommodation by a very good railway.

[jameslaidler]

Now me, I'd hitch to the back of a super long freight train, hitched to the rearmost locomotive for power of course. Just take a super slow super long ride across the country.

[christopherlucy]

Salisbury Beach was a regular visitor to South Station Boston..Boston & Maine did not have too many runs that would require sleepers and I didn't even know they had any streamlined cars ..it's rather odd one would have been built with open sections as late as 1954.. all passenger trains on the Boston & Maine ended by about the mid 1960s.. I wonder if this car was ever employed in overnight service to Montreal that would have been a possibility on a pool train w CN ?