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Hello all, Sitting in my daughter's kitchen in Huntersville, NC, thanks to my station agent in Mt Pleasant, Ia. California Zephyr of Jan 3, 2011 would have missed our Capitol Limited connection in Chicago. He tried to route us on the LSL and drop us down from NYP and several other routings...

Little mentions and tips that I now take for granted from all you folks, account for some serious savings to the 'ol pocketbook. One tip that I follow religiously is to revisit my travel dates closer in to my departure. I usually book far enough out that there is not the possibility of finding...

Hey all, Packed up and came down to MTP today prior to our tomorrow morning (?) departure. Also like to spread out my options. Can Drop down to Fort Madison and grab the Chief or head over to Galesburg for an Illinois service train. Looks like the Zephyr is behaving itself in that, we can...

I was plinking around on the AGR website to see if there was anything I might have missed. The home page shows the rotating five current promos. It actually says I'm registered on the "take ten" promo there. As it advanced to the Acela bonus points promo, it did not show I was registered...

I plugged in January 3rd, 2011 for a trip from Mt Pleasant to Chicago on #6. I wanted to see if they shed the high buckets yet. Buckets still high, but the departure from MTP and arrival to CHI were around 45 minutes earlier for both. One way that's good, but the reality is CZ's ontime...

Hey all, looking to avoid a wee hour layover in SAS station. Please correct me if I'm off base, but I'm thinking that if I reserve a room on #1 and #422 I can board #422 when I arrive SAS. I'm looking at a future trip which one of the legs is from New Olreans to Temple, TX. I'm hoping there...

The following is a letter I sent off to Amtrak regarding our latest trip around the country. Not noted in the letter was all the help you folks provided as well as the fact that I (we) finally had the privilege of meeting The Traveler in his northwestern haunts ;) I would do the Slidell run...

I just wanted to post a huge thanks to those in the know here. ;) I just booked the Slidell loophole to Portland, OR. Route is to Washington/Chicago/LA (yes!)/Portland. My heart was about to jump out of my chest when I inquired about utilizing the SW Chief in my routing. She paused and...