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Is this the correct order of things? Trains 91 & 92 are the Star, and carry 2 sleeper cars. Trains 97 & 98 are the Meteor, and carry 3 sleeper cars. Train 91 arrives in MIA evening of day 1, turns around and becomes train 92 departing MIA on day 2. Train 97 arrives in MIA evening of day 1...

This is my first post since returning from my July cross-country round trip Amtrak Adventure. I’ve waited this long to post because I had an ongoing Customer Relations case under investigation and didn’t want to post anything until it got closer to resolution and until I had calmed down a bit...

I am now officially starting to get excited about our upcoming summer vacation. We will be traveling cross-country on Amtrak, then taking a cruise to Alaska, then traveling back home on Amtrak. I've been reading this board extensively for 18 months and have tried to assimilate much of the...

Today, I decided to railfan the Silver Meteor at the Sebring station, as I've done several times in the past. Scheduled departure time is (was?) 11:44am. Before leaving home I checked the Amtrak Status Map and saw that the train left West Palm Beach 12 minutes late (I didn't note the specific...

Apple Corps and Shmuckers Announce Plans For Summer Music Festival Apple Corps, the Beatles-founded holding company and owner of their record label, Apple Records, along with Shmuckers, makers of the world's finest jams, jellies and preserves, today announced their plans to co-sponsor a series...

Next up for Mrs. Frugalist and I is a round trip from Florida to Vancouver, BC. Outbound, we're taking the Silver Meteor to New York, the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, the California Zephyr to Sacramento, the Coast Starlight to Seattle and an AmBus to Vancouver. We're planning to check a...

We have a trip coming up in July where we will be connecting from the westbound California Zephyr to the northbound Coast Starlight. Right now our reservations call for us to transfer at Emeryville, with a scheduled 6 hour layover. We are now considering the possibility of changing that so that...

My dear wife and I just returned from an amazing, incredible, fantastic week in The Big Apple. Our train trip was on the Silver Meteor from Sebring, FL to Penn Station and return in a bedroom, courtesy of AGR. We spent five nights at the very nice Four Points hotel on Chalmers St. just off...

Is the #110 bus stop right at the Atlanta Amtrak station, or is there any significant walking involved? Thanks.

A couple of weeks ago, I received a mailer from Chase offering triple points on all purchases using the AGR MasterCard through December 12. Anyone else get this offer? I'm pretty sure it's targeted. Just not sure how exclusive it is.

Once all the dust settles and the new AGR group settles into a routine, how long do you think it will take to process a points transfer from Continental OnePass to AGR? Before the recent migration we could pretty much count on points being posted to our AGR account early Monday morning as long...

My wife and I currently have a 3-zone bedroom AGR rewards trip booked from PDX-CHI, then CHI-WAS, then WAS-SBG. I've been waiting for a resolution to the Canadian border crossing dispute before adding the VAC-PDX portion of our trip to our reservation (same-day 2-hour connection in PDX). Now...

Is there a way to obtain the current status of a specific train via mobile texting? I know I can call 1-800-USA-RAIL and go through the phone tree, speak or key my train number and date, and eventually get its current status. But many times it would be faster and more convenient to just key in...

What would Amtrak have to do to make all the sleeper doors lockable from the outside? I know I've brought this up before, but the traveling solo thread has reignited my interest in this security issue. Yes, I was told not to worry, just keep my stuff out of sight and close the curtain when I...

We have a scheduled 6 hour layover in Emeryville between getting off the westbound California Zephyr and boarding the northbound Coast Starlight. We'd like to use that layover to go into San Francisco to do some sightseeing and have dinner. Can we buy tickets on the Amtrak Thruway bus #5005 from...

My wife and I have picked the cruise we want to take next summer. We’ve pretty much settled on the routing we’d like to take on our train trips to and from our cruise terminal, but I need a little advice on timing my AGR bookings and a couple of other issues. The background details are: 1) We...

SBG - BAL - WAS - SBG (07/18-23/2010) This was a trip for father and son to spend some quality time together. I live near Sebring, Florida and took the Silver Meteor to/from the Washington, DC area. My son lives near Atlanta and took the Crescent. Both our trips were AGR rewards, except for BAL...

Mrs. Frugalist and I are planning to take an Alaska cruise in Summer 2011. We are planning to take Amtrak between our home near Sebring, FL and either Seattle, WA or Vancouver, BC. Bedrooms all the way thanks to AGR. Which route would be best taken westbound, and which would be best taken...

I just received my monthly AGR account email update. The first item in the News & Offers sections reads as follows: "The Points for Shopping online mall will undergo remodeling this summer. The last date to place an order through the current Points for Shopping mall is July 23, 2010. Then check...

I'm arriving in BAL on #98, the Silver Meteor , around 8:40am on the 19th. Playing tourist around Baltimore for the day, then taking the NE Regional to WAS at 8:18pm. What's my best option for storing a carry-on-sized suitcase for the day at BAL Penn Station? I see a few possibilities. In order...