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What radio channel is being used by all those movements? I need to get programmed into my scanner. Thanks for posting. Good video,good audio. Dennis InGeorgia

Greetings from ATL. You appear to be more familiar than we with parking around the ATN (Anniston AL) station. Is there any security around parked cars there, or do we just run any risk of smashed windows, etc? ATN would be worth the drive just to avoid the ATL neighborhood after midnight IF we...

Greetings from ATL. You appear to be more familiar than we with parking around the ATN (Anniston AL) station. Is there any security around parked cars there, or do we just run any risk of smashed windows, etc? ATN would be worth the drive just to avoid the ATL neighborhood after midnight IF we...

We want to book ATL-TUS. When we went online, the only connection possible was through NOL. Since we’re not happy with being on the streets after dark there, we tried the connections through WAS and through CHI and none was listed (?) Calling AGR, it appears this is only possible with a live...

Please define “early September” I’m booked on 11 PDX-SAC and really nervous.

9/7 is the last day of the bus bridge? I’m on the NEXT train south, on 9/8 out of Portland. This ought to be enough to make me feel relieved. So why don’t I? Is it because there’s enough in the fine print to allow Amtrak to change things whenever and however? I’m hoping someone can make feel me...

I really enjoy taking my scanner on train trips. We get to hear about “issues” early on and we enjoy the back-and- forth with conductors snd the head end, for example. I have frequencies for my trains from On Tack/Online loaded in my scanner, changing them each time I change trains. It’s great...

With 3 out of 4of my last conductors I’d dutifully show them my QR code and the did not scN it no look at the ticket-just waved me on.I’ll always do it so I won’t be”THAT guy”

Looking over the delayed-train reports on the Amtrak Alerts page, I see a noticeable group of delays from “signal issues’. What? Wasn’t PTC, after truckloads of money spent on just that feature, supposed to make that source of delay disappear? Instead, it seems that “signal issues” still seem to...

I may as well throw in another bit of on-board drama since many others have done so. Listening to my scanner aboard the EB one night after passing Wisconsin Dells enroute to Tomah, we heard the SSL’s attendant/bartender call for “a uniformed conductor”. We shortly “just happened to wander by”...

One of my few-if-ever chances to ride the Cardinal will be around Labor Day. Any chance at all they'd run a Viewliner Ii on 51/52? I’d sure like to experience one before I’m too old to travel.

I notice that Clifton Forge Va is a fueling stop for CSX trains. Does AMTRAK refuel here too, or do they fill up further down the line?

In the past my train has both pulled into Chicago and at other times it’s backed in. Is there a way to tell what my train will be directed to do, or is it at the dispatcher’s whim?

The agent at AGR said so many hit the link at once that it crashed the system. Would love to know how many that took😳;)

On other times we took a MAX line to Voodoo Doughnuts and would like to go again (who wouldn’t) in 2021. What is the best MAX stop for this, how long a walk is it, and is it a safe-enough walk there and back to MAX?

Good responses all, new friends, and I managed to book half my trip. For the return trip, from the same agent, I was assured that I could book, using the departure date of the first train of my journey, without regard to departure date of the subsequent trains re whether they were 11 months...

Penny, I did think about that and I’ll follow your suggestion. Can you tell me of a good time/day to catch a more experienced agent on duty? This is a 50th anniversary trip and I don’t want anything to go wrong. Thank you.

Ok, fellow travelers, help me verify what an AGR agent told me when I called to book a trip. Her software assigned us a roomette upstairs, but when I asked for one downstairs, she told me that would cost me about 17,000 more points, saying that some roomettes are charged more points than others...