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I'm taking 66, PHL-NHV, departing PHL just past midnight and arriving NHV at 4:20am Tuesday morning. (My car is in the New Haven garage. Let's just say I'll never drive to New Haven again and leave it at that, ok?) Anyway, I've got a couple boxes of stuff I'd like to move up to Massachusetts...

I had lunch today at Tidewater Grille in Havre de Grace, which has a great view of the NEC bridge over the Susquehanna. During an hour or so lunch, I saw a NB Regional (HHP8), NB Acela, SB Silver Star (AEM7) and NB Regional (HHP8) meeting on the bridge, SB Acela, and SB Regional (HHP8). View...

I'll be taking 66 from Philadelphia to New Haven in a week. I've got upgrade coupons to burn, and booked coach in hopes of a free BC upgrade. But the PHL ticket hours end at 9:30pm -- long before the "one hour in advance" window to use the coupon. Will an agent honor the coupon and reticket me...

I just went to AGR to book a coach northeast zone trip from Springfield to Philadelphia, aiming for the 475 shuttle/175 regional ... and was surprised to see as my only options the two direct regionals that originate in Springfield. In the fine print, I discovered "Rewards members can redeem...

In December, I rode LAX-FNO and back utilizing the Amtrak California bus LAX-BFD and San Joaquin BFD-FNO. The tickets printed showing $0 on the bus legs and $49 on the northbound SJ train, $40 on the southbound SJ train -- I have the stubs showing this. But AGR claims (on their website) that the...

So, Sunday night I signed up for OnePass and flew PDX-EWR-BOS on Continental using my new OnePass membership number. The points haven't posted yet, but their mileage calculator shows I'll receive 2,634 OnePass points for this travel. I understand I can only transfer points over to AGR in blocks...

This just gets crazier and crazier. Saturday, we arrive in Portland, find out we can't take 28(1), and spend some time in the Metropolitan Lounge assessing our options. I go to amtrak.com, click the Timetables, and download the relevant ones to my laptop. The new Coast Starlight timetable was...

This may be the first of many questions along a similar theme... In an attempt to calculate precisely total miles traveled on Amtrak and total unique track miles traveled on Amtrak, I've been going through the old timetables to get the timetable in effect for each train for each date I've taken...

Went to the counter in Los Angeles, tickets in hand for a 14-28-448 trip (guaranteed connections, starting and ending at stations with baggage handling, etc), a good twelve hours before departure, and got an agent who nearly refused to check our bags at all :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: Now, I...

The CS to EB connection in PDX is guaranteed, under the current timetable, at 65 minutes (3:40pm CS arrival, 4:45pm EB departure). Looking at Amtrak Delays, coming into PDX, the CS has been: 0-29 minutes late on 9 of the past 14 dates 30-59 minutes late on 1 of the past 14 dates 60-89...

I have a reservation for the morning train from Fresno (6:50am) to Oakland (11:00am), but I'll be catching it in Merced (7:42am). I'd planned to print the ticket at the station before the train, but just realized the Merced station doesn't open until 7:15am -- after the train has left Fresno...

On the theme of points posting at unpredictable times, I just saw I had 999 points post on Christmas Day, including enough Rail Points to put me in Select for next year. Knew it would happen, but wasn't expecting it on Christmas :) This was for SPG-CHI and CHI-LAX (plus Select bonus and 2x...

(Long time gone. Howdy!) First-hand reporting from train 49, btw Buffalo and Erie, where we stopped at about 1:30am (running maybe half an hour late). Theories abounded, rumors swirled, and the only thing we knew for sure was that there were about five police cars and some much larger police...

My father has come into a collection of old Amtrak materials, including many copies of certain items. Is there any interest (a) among forum members for things like system maps, travel brochures, magazines, annual reports, employee (non-public) timetables, reports to the ICC, etc, from the...

I'm considering an itinerary like Thu 24 June, Springfield to Lynchburg Sat 26 June, Lynchburg to Philadelphia Mon 28 June, Philadelphia to Springfield I have a bicycle and a couple boxes of books I want to get from Lynchburg to Springfield. Can I get them checked straight through as checked...

One way or another, I'll be in Brattleboro (Marlboro, really) by Friday evening. I have the option of going up Thursday and staying in Boston for a night; I may have the option of going up Thursday and staying in Brattleboro for a night too. I'd initially dismissed the idea of going to...

Google Maps puts an "Amtrak station" icon about a mile south of where it says "10 Vernon St Brattleboro" -- the actual station address -- is located. Can someone confirm that the icon location is an error? (Google muffs these regularly, but not knowing the area I can't say for sure about this one.)

Yesterday, I did a bunch of stuff with AGR: I bought 10,000 AGR for myself on Buy Points (to also get myself 3,000 bonus). I redeemed a two-zone bedroom award for 30,000 AGR. After doing both of these, I looked at my account activity, and saw: 04/30/2010 Bonus Chase Rebate bonus...

Say my parents want to go CHI-PDX-EMY, and I'm willing to spend 30,000 points to get them a two-zone bedroom. On one particular date, there's a bedroom available PDX-EMY on the CS, but bedrooms are sold-out on the EB CHI-PDX. But there is a roomette available on the EB -- so they could have a...

We've been having about one death-by-Amtrak per week in the Philadelphia area this year, it seems... but today's was a change from the usual. Struck by an Amtrak work train. (Result: the same as always.) story here