Has something changed in the last few years? In the summer of 2008 I could not bring my bicycle on the train from the East Coast(Maine). Could take the bicycle from Chicago all the way to the West Coast though. Something about the old rails/bridges and using the smaller trains.
Don't know if I was fed a line of bull but.... If I could have taken it along it would have saved me a hundred bucks in shipping UPS.
And although it was a really nice train trip.... It was 4 days... Yikes.