User talk:Fernyberty

Fernyberty, First off, welcome to wikipedia. It's an honor to be the first to comment =-) Regarding this edit: What the "second longest" comment is referring to is that the consist of the Texas Eagle is combined with the Sunset Limited at San Antonio Texas. This makes it theoretically possible to get from Chicago to Los Angeles via San Antonio Texas without ever changing trains. The combined route would be longer than the California Zephyr. However, with that said, I agree with you. This is not a true train route, nobody would actually go from Chicago to LA this way, except for a train enthusiast or someone who made a mistake. A common person wishing to travel from Chicago to LA would take the much shorter Southwest Chief. Nor does Amtrak market this train trip as a possibility, and it would most likely have to be done with two tickets, or explicitly requesting the itinerary with a live agent, as any automated machine would book a Chicago-LA ticket via the Chief. It is a technicality (although admittedly an interesting one) dug up by train enthusiasts. I only state this to mention that this fact may get re-inserted into the article. Please comment if you have any ideas on how to make the article both accurate, but not spend too much time dedicated to this piece of cool, but useless, trivia.Dave (talk) 03:51, 6 January 2017 (UTC)