Since retirement,my wife and I make annual round trips to San Francisco on the train from either NWK or NYP. The routes vary.Most years years we head out from Newark and go NER to the CL (where we check our bags) and then the CZ. Eastward we often split our trips to see friends - going to ABQ on the SWC - and then on to Chicago for a bit before returning to our apartment here in Jersey City. This year we are coming straight home - CZ to CL to PGH where we'll transfer to the Pennsylvanian. Now that #42 has a baggage car we plan on checking bags all the way from Emeryville to Newark (SF no longer has checked bags now after the move out of the Temporary Transbay Terminal). Will it be too risky to check bags through on 3 trains? If we make connections but bags don't what's the procedure? Pick up in Newark the following day? Should we schlep them instead? We've never had a problem with checked bags before but then we've also never tried it for 3 trains. Any advice will be appreciated. Our return trip starts on June 30th.
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