Recent content by kentuckian1977

Small world of trains, huh ^_^ Kevin was second only to the outstanding Daryl on the CZ out of all the SCAs we had on our long trip, so Rion really must be a great one and a great trainer. I'll have to be sure to check out Rion's facebook page because I love the CONO and perhaps in the future...

Different Kevin, this one was a slim young white guy with dark hair and glasses. Like I said, the pair of bad apples on the TE were neither one enough to mess up a good trip, but they were both sorely lacking in people skills and in the SCA's case, in the initiative to not act put off about...

Took my mom on her "bucket list" trip around the west, from January 16-25 out of Memphis, all in roomettes, with the exception of a short section in business class on the Surfliner. Left Memphis on the CONO on Friday the 16th. VERY rough track to Fulton. Good breakfast with pleasant service...

Thanks, was thinking that NE was just a "subzone" but wanted to make sure.

Is travel from the Eastern -Zone to Northeast Zone considered 1 or 2 zones for redemption travel ? (i.e. Huntington WV - NYP).

I have been through LA Union Station once before a few years ago (before the Metro Lounge) and used the baggage storage room there for my bags while gone riding the Red line to play tourist in Hollywood for an afternoon. Now that the Metropolitan Lounge there is open, does one still need to...

That is good to know - it would be much simpler to do it that way. And you're right, AGR redemptions are one way only.

That is what I was thinking as well. I should add that this will not be a roundtrip anyway, as there will be a couple of other segments (during the day, and in coach, on our dime) and hotel stays in between the two parts that we are going to redeem points for. We are wanting to do a roomette...

I will be taking a trip sometime this winter with my mother. We will each be using a 2-zone roomette redemption for this trip. She has the 20,000 points for one way, I have the 20,000 points for the other. Should we just make two separate calls to book this, or would it be possible (and...

Thanks!

My mother and I will be arriving and departing from Chicago on Amtrak. We are staying in the area one night, and will need to take the Metra BNSF line to Aurora on a Monday evening then back into Chicago the next morning. I'm pretty familiar with Union Station from prior Amtrak trips, but know...

Thanks again for your email and for your reply on here I appreciate you getting to the bottom of this for all of us.

I noticed after some googling that the lot at the station is still shown as a free park and ride lot for the Memphis Trolley system. I'm guessing if it is still free for that then surely Amtrak passengers can still use the spaces next to the Amtrak platform. Guess I'm just wanting somebody to...

Thanks. That first link is the one that I had happened across that had got me concerned about his to begin with. I did just now notice that the original post in that was from Feb. 2013, only a couple of months after I had left my car at the station in Memphis for my last trip out of there...

I quite by accident just ran across information online which said that you can no longer park long-term at Central Station in Memphis. Amtrak's website seems to confirm this, as it now lists the parking as only short term. Can anyone who has left on the CONO from there lately tell me if this...