Just a small nit pick... It was not a surly Boston based conductor. Not sure if it's Albany or Springfield that they're based out of, but I can tell you that Boston only crews trains on the Northeast Corridor.When I did it in January, it was slightly more than 20 feet and it involved going down an escalator or elevator to the lower track for the continuing train to BOS. My TA-S was the nicest in helping me with one of my bags to the platform, which helped make up for the surly Boston-based conductor on the continuing train who berated a passenger because she turned the wrong way into the coach car.I have already done this, you get off in Albany and walk 20 feet, into an Amfleet cafe/buisness car, buisness seats for Sleeper, Coach seats for Coach, number is same, 448/449Have tickets for LSL BOS to CHI on Sept 7. Notified that there are no sleeping cars BOS to ALB - track work. Does this really mean that we will be bused?
Just a small nit pick... It was not a surly Boston based conductor. Not sure if it's Albany or Springfield that they're based out of, but I can tell you that Boston only crews trains on the Northeast Corridor.When I did it in January, it was slightly more than 20 feet and it involved going down an escalator or elevator to the lower track for the continuing train to BOS. My TA-S was the nicest in helping me with one of my bags to the platform, which helped make up for the surly Boston-based conductor on the continuing train who berated a passenger because she turned the wrong way into the coach car.I have already done this, you get off in Albany and walk 20 feet, into an Amfleet cafe/buisness car, buisness seats for Sleeper, Coach seats for Coach, number is same, 448/449Have tickets for LSL BOS to CHI on Sept 7. Notified that there are no sleeping cars BOS to ALB - track work. Does this really mean that we will be bused?
Interesting. Well, he had a Boston accent and departed the train at South Station (does the LSL overnight the crews in Boston?). But, thinking back on it, he could have been a transplant.It would be Albany based...
Unfortunately, for the hard of hearing, like myself, any accent can be difficult to understand.In my case, people just start off with the assumption that they will not understand whatever accent I might have, and then after exchanging two or three sentences they relax and stop squinting at me, and just carry on a conversation. And occasionally they even say something like "You speak English very well", indicating that I far exceeded their expectation and then some I guess the expectations are set by whatver they hear from the call centers or something like that.
Could be; but I went to college with a girl from Yonkers so I know that general accent (recognizing there are differences between that part of the city and other boroughs, even) and the “pahk the cahr in Hahvahd Yahd” stereotype and his was more the latter than the former. But as AmtrakBlue has said, if one has changed residences in life it can seem muddled to others. This conductor also had the look as if he would be right at home in any neighborhood bar in Southie.I've got a strong Boston accent. Some people from Florida used to ask me if I'm from New York. Maybe it was a New York accent? :unsure:
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