What can I say? Amtrak is a great and cheap way to travel the US. I use the Cleveland station several times a year and although it's old and kind of dirty, it's cheap and mostly reliable with a private, fenced-in parking lot. The nation's railways are not maintained by Amtrak, but by the freight lines that own the track, so don't blame Amtrak if they can't travel at high speeds. The govt. subsidizes Amtrak, so as you might imagine they don't have a lot of money. All that being said, I love the train and take it any time I can. ** Make sure you have some lee-way in your travel plans because Amtrak is notoriously unreliable when it comes to their posted departure and arrival times. I nearly missed my honeymoon because of a MAJOR delay.