Recent content by rile42

I may have to change a trip I'm taking from Washington DC to Cleveland in a roomette. At first, I was leaving DC on Dec. 31st. The cost was $182.50 with a points redemption of 6659 points. I did the math and found it was approximately 36.5 points per dollar which seems like the usual ratio...

My wife and I are booked on a round trip from Cleveland to Los Angeles in March. Almost all of it, Toledo to LA and back were booked as old two-zone AGR redemptions. The other parts, Cleveland to Toledo and Toledo to Cleveland were booked normally. We will travel in a roomette the entire...

I booked a loop trip, for March, with my Guest Reward points when the new Guest Rewards new rules came out last fall. I've taken the trip before, from Cleveand to Los Angeles using the Capitol Limited, Texas Eagle, and Sunset Limited to Los Angeles. Then on the return using the Southwest Chief...

With all the confusion concerning the Chase AGR card, I decided to get the Chase Preferred card. Question, can I transfer the points free to my AGR account each month? Plus, if I do that, would it affect the 40,000 point bonus offer?

My friend intends to join AGR and redeem points for a trip from LA to Toledo. Let me make sure I'm correct on this. There is no way he can get 20,000 points through buying or transferring.

Thanks guys for your responses. It's not a big deal, just wanted to make sure what I was thinking was OK. I mentioned I had a couple alternative plans if train 66 was missed and they were the exact ideas offered. As to the option of taking train 49 out of NYP, that may even be a little...

I have made many multi-train trips over the last 20+ years with hardly ever a problem. But now, I am a tad concerned about an AGR trip I have booked. I am taking a loop trip CLE-CHI-WAS-BOS-CLE in September using trains 29, 50, 66, and 449. I am using an AGR trip from CIN to BOS on my account...

As always, some pretty good advise concerning my trip. I decided to pay for the portion of the trip from CLE to CIN to keep my redemption down to a one-zone trip. I booked that portion of the trip in coach. I may check to see if the roomette I'm booked in from CIN is empty before I leave CLE...

I am with you on buying the ticket to CIN to keep it a one-zone trip since it's only about $9 more but saves me the extra 5000 points. I do have another question though and it doesn't matter if I pay to Connersville or CIN. Since I'll be departing from CHI on a train but will be in a roometter...

I am planning a trip to Boston from Cleveland in September. Usually, I travel the Capitol Limited to DC, spend most of the day there walking around and visiting the Irish Times. Then late at night, I take train 66 to Boston where I board the LSL for a return to Cleveland.. This year, I have a...

Still sitting in Cleveland, almost 5 hours late. Not Amtrak's fault though. Would love a few minutes with the owner of that car.

Finally found out. Supposedly, it hit an abandoned car. It's now running but about 3 hours late. That's twice within a week that a Cleveland train has been in a wreck with a vehicle.

Anyone know what's happened to the CL tonight? It's stuck before South Bend for over 2 hours.

There is one thing I didn't realize, or at least forgot about the Amsnag rates until just the other day. I knew the fares shown were for the current bucket fares of each train and day. But what I forgot was that when taking a roomette, say, Amtrak uses the lowest bucket fare for the coach part...

Thanks everyone...didn't occur to me about the different oprrating systems.