19hrs in Amtrak Coach (Economy) from New York to Chicago for $68 each (First time in  

I want to travel with you all. By the time I would get to Chicago I would weigh 10 pounds more, but I would be happy😅👍😉🫶 BTW, I subscribed because I want to travel more with you all - beautiful family ☺️

The kids loved Amtrak because your parents made it so much fun. You were well prepared and you completed the assignment. So that is a memory that you created for your children that they will remember forever. Nice job parents.

I really like your attitude about travel! It is all about excitement and wonder. Too many people complain so much, they miss the point. Thank you for taking us along on your journey.

I'm sitting here smiling from ear to ear!! May God bless you and keep your hearts full of Joy!!!

I never expected a video of regular folks traveling would be so much fun, but you guys pulled it off! Thank you for taking me on your trip! 😊

This is one of the best coach-class Amtrak videos I've seen, and there are a LOT of them!. Great job, subscribed!

Great job on the video! This really shows how it looks to ride economy and it doesn’t look bad at all. Personally, I would be challenged with sitting so long but you did a great job demonstrating what the ride would be like. Thank you!

Your kids are wonderful and well behaved. You are wonderful parents! Making these menories with your kids is priceless!! Bless you all from Ohio!!

Train travel is one of life’s great pleasures.

This was a lovely video and you are a lovely family. You made your children’s trip a wonderful one. I love traveling by train too. So glad you are introducing a new generation to train travel. 😊

I always travel coach because it fits my budget and I meet more people. Thank you for your lovely video. Most people who do videos are grumpy when they are in coach. You show that it is a matter of attitude. You chose to be happy and think it is a great trip.

One of the very best videos of this route trip / ride for Amtrak !! 👍👍The mom is beautiful & she can cook & their kids are very well behaved & handsome boys !! The dad is a very lucky man !! I loved your enthusiasm & I totally can relate to your feelings & being a bit emotional & sentimental at the end of this video ( ride ) & swearing you'd ride on an Amtrak train ,again !! That was what & how I felt when I took an Amtrak train to San Diego from L.A. a few years ago !! ( it was not my 1st time taking Amtrak ,though ) The staff were so caring & so nice to us ,too !! We rode in a business class. We loved our souvenir boxes from them ,too ! I am very glad to know you guys were very comfortable in coach class seats for 19 hrs .!!! 👍👍I'd love to do this ,too ~!! I'll bring my own meals & snacks as well ! That was a hefty volume of snacks you brought in ,though !! 😅 Haha. I wanna try some of that vegan BBQ 🍔, too !! 😋 I am currently planning to take this route with mom in a wheelchair. So ,debating between this & a roommate, but it's gonna be super expensive to do the round trip from L.A.if we'll do all sleepers cars plus our cruise to England from N.Y. !!! Lol 😅But,we are very determined & excuted for our trip together !!! Thanks for this wonderful video !! It was really great !! I really enjoyed !! You said it felt like a short trip & you wanted more ! I felt this video went really quickly as I really enjoyed !! Which is not really often the case for a long video ! 👏👏👏💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🚈🍽💕💞

An absolutely delightful family, the kind I love to meet up with whenever I am on Amtrak.

Your video made my husband and I confident we could do this journey in coach - thank you! We sleep all the time on overnight planes and this is so much better. Your kid's reaction to the journey ending was so cute.

We did Washington, D.C. to Chicago a month ago in Coach. We brought sandwiches and froze bottles of water. They thawed and were nice and cold.

A beautiful family of four. Mom always smiles.

Your enthusiasm and excitement made the trip more fun for you and the kids. It also made the video fun. Happy travels!

I love Amtrak also. Thanks for taking us along.

Watching this Video made my Day. Thank you for sharing your Family with us! Subscribed.

What a joy to watch! Loved your spirit and excitement! Thanks for the views and Amtrack experience!

What an excellent tour! Thanks!!!!

Your family is sooo beautiful! Thanks for sharing your journey.

LOVED the outtakes at the end. Thank you for sharing. Fun stuff!!!

Thank you, planning our first Amtrak ride and your video was so helpful and loved all the extra details you provided esp the seat information.

Loved your review, and your excitement. I have been riding Amtrak since the 1980s and always excited to go. I love that you are enjoying the time with your family and taking time to relax and enjoy the ride.

beautiful family...keep up the good work on reviews.

You all made the train trip seem so fun and now I am ready to book train trip for me and my family. I loved the excitement on the Mom's face.

Really nice video. I share your sense of excitement about train travel. I am planning to take 3 economy class trips this summer, the longest about 15 hours and you captured perfectly what I will encounter. Thanks.

You guys are awesome love the back-and-forth commentating thank you for sharing. I too have ridden coach from Greenville SC to Philly numerous times and love it every time.

You guys are so cute. I was so excited and happy when I took a train from Montreal to North Canada on 13 hours overnight. It was the happiest day of my life.

I love how excited you all were for this trip. I love taking the train! It may not be the quickest, but I have found it to be the most relaxing and interesting way to travel.

You are both wonderful parents.Msy God Bless you!!

Just came across your channel, love it !!! Definitely subscribed

everything about this vlog was so cute!! thank you for sharing ❤❤

Writing from Australia and having done this journey as part of a trans-Amtrak across America holiday, it was so gratifying to see newbie Amtrak travellers who had such a positive experience. Yes, compared to airline seats, Amtrak coach is almost as good as Business class. Happy and customer focused train staff also make for a positive journey experience. Wait till you eventually travel in the Amtrak SuperLiner cars.

Great video as always 👍🏽.

That was a fantastic overview of an Amtrak train trip. We would travel with our two daughters and this is exactly what we would hope for in our family travels. Thanks so much for sharing your experience.

I just love your video!! I love your excitement and appreciation of the train. You both seem like lovely people and your sons are sweet. I subscribed so that I can enjoy you all along the way! ❤

I love Amtrak too! What a great adventure!

Eye masks and ear plugs are my go to so I don’t wake up at overnight stops. Loved the video!

Thanks y'all for changing !!🙏

Enjoying your economy reviews 🙌

I am soon going to take the auto train Washington to Orlando and I will go and Coach also. So thank you for the helpful video and your excitement is fun 😊 to watch. And the mommy in this video is gorgeous!

GREAT FAMILY I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST

This video was so awesome!! Amazing family and great video content! 😊 God bless you guys! 🙏

What an amazing family. 😊

Me and my family are traveling from Toledo to New York at the end of March for my 50th birthday first train ride I am so excited🎉😊

This was so much fun to watch! I love your family. When you went through Goshen Indiana, you passed about 5-6 miles from our house. 😀 Good luck on your future adventures!

Nice video, I went on this same trip a few months ago and totally enjoyed the experience but didn't get any sleep at all. There was one guy sitting behind me snored all the from Rochester to Chicago . . . no one got a wink of sleep !!

Wow, thank you for the video that brought back so much good memories. I took Amtrak from Oakland, California to Boston Massachusetts. Definitely long ride coach all the way so I know what you’re talking about. It has been a while since I’ve done that but it was an amazing experience thanks for the video.

WOW! well done guys. Thoroughly enjoyed your video. The excitement was lot more visible on mom and dad getting ready for the 19h trip. May i suggest getting a mic to clearly hear the conversations. Over all, you captured the entire journey nicely with great detailed background information.

Beautiful family and experience!

Thank you for showing your trip. I'm going on a train, and I hope I love it the way you guys love it

I enjoyed your trip, loved it❤ I loved my train ride with my parents when I was a little boy 😊good video 👍

sending my support by watching your entire video. Informative , Efucational

This was great. I watch a lot of Amtrac videos. This was the first one I have seen with kids in tow 👍👍👍👍👍

I enjoyed this so much.

This is one of the nicest travel videos I have watched!

What a wonderful travelogue and your excitement for train travel was so heartening to watch. You were all like wondrous kids discovering something special for the first time! I just completed a trip from Seattle to Los Angeles then to Santa Fe to Chicago and New York (with stops in between-all by coach.) I share your enthusiasm for train travel, as it's a way to travel that invites you to savor moments on the journey. Who knows? Maybe I'll be sitting across from you on some trip some day.

Very nice family! Everyone had a great attitude and it was shining through. The only difficult amenity would be the restroom, not sure I could handle that for a trip much longer than 19 hours. You and your family would be great to have as traveling companions. Thanks for video.

Yes, your trip as I recalled as I've travelling on Amtrak train even before Amtrak became nationwide (formerly individual railroad passengers companies became no longer confused with many transfers) for over 55 years. I hopped once or twice a year acrossing any part of USA as I love it and no matter if the train is delays or on time because train travellings are blasting with wonderful socially different people from all over the places and a beauty by looking views passing different areas too. And I'm using mostly sleeper car that is including no extra cost eating in dining car is the best! And their real foods are great! Able to walk entire each cars or standing out of train car on platform if stop for 10 or more minutes (don't wonder away from platform then the train will left by catch up on schedule or be on-time a minute or two before). While monitoring the completely refueling in locomotives, done by exchanging suitcases in baggage car, finishing filling up water each car and less passengers hopping in or hopping out will be leaving early as a schedule. I used took Southern Pacific (SP) Peninsula Commuter trains for years. SP ran between San Francisco and San Jose, now called Caltrain extended to Gilroy (south of San Jose). For you guys are taking a short trip on any long distance Amtrak to see if you like the train before taking longer trip. Also, check train status (keeping repeating if a train is catch up) for the arrival to save yourself waiting. Enjoy!

I loved ur video, I also enjoy Amtrak, it’s been almost 30 yrs since I went from Chicago to Denver w my two young sons ❤ they still talk about that trip today. I hope you enjoyed my hometown Chicago.

I love how much fun you are having! Just wait until you get a bedroom car it is so much better you'll really trip out! Glad you had a good trip

Thank you for sharing.You provided very interesting and valuable commentary. You have a very beautiful family.The boys were very well behaved. May you have many more safe travels!!

Hello 👋 beautiful vlog, you made the train 🚆 ride seem so much fun. I'm definitely going to try Amtrak with my family. Your vlog was very informative, so thank you. I'm looking forward to more amazing vlogs! Happy and safe travels!❤😊

Just Arrived In Rocky Mt. N.C. 18+ Hours. What A Ride On Coach.

Good video, great job. Very nice family, mom is stunning

I still remember Amtrak as a kid I loved it . That rice looked absolutely delicious!!

Great Blessed happy smiling Family and equally enjoyable Amtrak Journey Blogger Mr Dad ❤😊🎉

Great video, having traveled Amtrak before you captured the experience well, and you came prepared. You are a beautiful family and your kids were raised well, very well behaved and respectful. God bless you and I wish you continued success with your videos. 🙏✝️👍

FYI, the person getting into the Locomotive is called the Engineer. The conductor is on board the passenger cars themselves. They are the ones that check tickets and run the train from the inside. Alongside the engineer who gets into the cab. Also, the locomotive number has nothing to do with the train number. Just a little few helpful temps for you guys. Great video.

What a cute family. Love Mom’s smile 😊

Your joy at riding Amtrak makes me so happy! I just booked a trip because I've missed it so much!

Love it. I feel the same way when I'm on amtrack. I did NY Tampa in a roommette because of my points. I'm thinking of doing ny to Chicago

I love this. What an adventure for the kids

I did 25 hrs in coach from Chicago to New Mexico. Most of my day I spent it on the scenery cart. It was beautiful.

Wonderful, informative video! I am taking a round trip, solo in coach in early July from Chicago to Buffalo to spend a long day at Niagara Falls. Was a bit worried about night travel in coach but am happy to know that the cafe car stays open until 11 so I’ll have somewhere else to sit for a couple of hours on the Chicago to Buffalo leg of the journey. Beautiful family!❤

My next tour. Thank you.

Thanks for this video. Hello from Poland...

Great video!

What a great family

Such well behaved boys, so wonderful to see 😊

Your children are exceptional!!! Nice to see how you managed coach for the whole trip. We are planning a 3 day trip.😮 3 children, 4, 8, & 13.

Nice video, making memories. 👋 South TX

Beautiful family ❤

you go right past my town on that train so neat to see from a train perspective

Lots of love from India. I have lots of experience of traveling across india by trains but this ride really looked amazing and brought back a lot of nostalgia travelling with my parents during my childhood. Loved your video❤ This video made me subscribe your channel as well. Hope to see more such family trips soon. 👏

As someone who rides Amtrak alot, as a tip I usually pack snacks and cold foods, like chicken wraps, sandwiches, etc. They do have a microwave in the diner cart. Great video though, I subbed. I also uploaded my own mini Amtrak video. Also as another tip, be very careful leaving train side. I've seen people get left behind. When Amtrak leave, they leave. They may be late to places, but they leave on time.

I'm glad you didn't experience any hiccups with this trip. That has sometimes been the case with people making the crosscountry Amtrak trips where the train is stuck or delayed due to random issues with the train or no conductor. I can understand doing this trip at $70/person, but I just find that with the limited amt of time I have on vacations to speak, it's hard to justify losing a day or so in travel time. With that said, I think the sleeper car is too prohibitively expensive, as I've noticed in other videos on here. Plus you'd need to reserve 2 cabins and isn't all too comfortable. If you want to explore Amtrak, I suggest two routes: a) Amtrak Cascades: Vancouver to Seattle. Pay a little more for first/business class and enjoy the views + food. b) Amtrak Pacific Surfliner: Double decker train with pretty nice views of Southern California.

Good O'l Union Station .... doesn't grow old on Ya. Wish if they had dedicated carts for large breed dogs. We'd love to plan a round trip from Chitown to Big Apple.

Awesome content thanks

I’ve done the Maryland New York round trip in coach. It was a bit rocky for me. I’m excited about my upcoming one way auto train from Virginia to Florida in a roomette. I’m glad I can take my car on the train with me.

It was so much fun watching you with your kids on the way to chicago. They are so cute

You guys simply Awesome I have learned a lot through your vlogs Thank 💕 Take care By the end of June Will come to the USA (Indiana) Then travel to New York.

I love Amtrak ❤❤❤

I would have a problem with the bathroom issue so i probably would do the sleeper. Yall did it the right way with your own food, buy some from cafe car and bring games. I loved the family interaction. Thanks for this video.

Lovely family ❤

Loved your content... Been taking Amtrak since I was 9 by myself from South Carolina to Georgia in my late 40ties now. Amtrak is a good ride and next time get one of them to clean that bathroom. Chicago is a major station as the the train can go straight to New Orleans. Also from NY to DC is a great trip with kids because all the museums are free, but just pay for your hotel. Lastly can I get a cooking video on the mint sauce and chicken. New Subbie

Awesome video!

Hint for moynihan, due to the track layout only tracks 5-9 can access the empire tunnel used by all Albany bound trains. Gives an idea where to position oneself for the late for sure limited. Great little greasy spoon with great burgers in an old firehouse building across street from station in Albany. Great to grab dinner from for coach passengers as plenty of dwell time in Albany while Boston section connected.