Recent content by mrrobot787

To purchase a cardboard box from Amtrak would've been $5. Above the baggage limit is $20 per bag up to the secondary limit. That is better stated on their website.

The issue for me with the stuff I needed to bring, was weight. I find that the private shipping companies are unaffordable for sending heavy packages and hence why I took the train. I did, however, send all of my books home with media mail. This is a great way to send books for dirt cheap. Even...

So as an update to this whole saga...it turns out that the guy yesterday was partially incorrect. The woman working at the counter this evening said he was new and didn't know what the h*ll he was talking about. The baggage apparently does have to be checked to our final destination if allowed...

The problem is largely solved now. The agent here in Chicago said that there is no issue with our bags leaving the train in Buffalo, aka, earlier than our final stop in Boston. He said that the Flagstaff guy didn't know what he was talking about. So to summarize, it is possible to ship checked...

So I was apparently worrying about the wrong thing. The station attendant stated that they accept totes, as long as they are the sturdy and reinforced kind. This is what we had, so it was no issue. What is an issue is rather stupid. The agent here in Flagstaff will not let us check bags to...

We've begun revising our plan. My grandma lives in Buffalo/Niagara Falls area of NY. We will have the bags checked to one of these stations and then an uncle will pick up the stuff and transport it to my gms house. Most of it is stuff that I want, but don't urgently need. We will each put more...

I wish that were an option. That would add several hundred $ and my train leaves on Monday morning. Already booked.

Since things are so screwed up with Covid, do you think they'd let us transfer that stuff onboard as normal baggage?

Seriously? That's a big problem for me, I have a lot of stuff to move. What should I do?

Other way actually, moving home from Uni! Just posted that question btw.

Hello, Beginning of post is back round and answers I have already received to other questions. Skip to last paragraph for the pertinent questions: I will be traveling with the Southwest Chief from Arizona to Chicago before a layover of 2 days there and then my trip will continue to Boston via...

Hi, I'm just an average railfan/Amtrak passenger. Joined today to post a question for an upcoming trip, which I will do in the proper forum thread. I'm 23 and from New Hampshire, so the Downeaster is my route. I'm about to take the chief and lake shore limited Monday for the second time to...