by Allouette
Obviously you get more scenery eastbound. It's still a nice ride even without the dome cars that were on it before the Superliners. The Cleveland station is reasonably safe - there's nothing around it for folks not involved in the train to hang around for. The biggest problem with the station is that even native Clevelanders have a hard time finding it (it's off the "Marginal" - the expressway's access road). The eastbound train is likely to be near the scheduled time. Check the Amtrak web site to see how it's been doing. My practice is to check the arrivals on the same day of the week for a couple of weeks going back.