Bronzeman
Train Attendant
Our family just returned from a pleasant trip from CHI to GPK on the EB. On our arrival at GPK, however, we were surprised to see checked baggage being handled by the station crew. Had we known we would have checked a few bags rather than stuff everything in our sleepers.
The fact is that we didn't know because I looked at the timetable rather than the stations tab on the website. The latter clearly states that baggage is handled. My issue is with the timetable. It has a symbol (a small suitcase) defined as "Checked baggage at select stations". For reasons that were certainly not apparent to me that symbol appears in front of the arrival/departure times at only some of the stations that handle checked bags. For example, it appears before the end points SEA and CHI but not before GPK and MOT even though all four actually handle checked bags.
Does anyone have any idea what the reasoning behind this might be? BTW we did check on our return to CHI.
The fact is that we didn't know because I looked at the timetable rather than the stations tab on the website. The latter clearly states that baggage is handled. My issue is with the timetable. It has a symbol (a small suitcase) defined as "Checked baggage at select stations". For reasons that were certainly not apparent to me that symbol appears in front of the arrival/departure times at only some of the stations that handle checked bags. For example, it appears before the end points SEA and CHI but not before GPK and MOT even though all four actually handle checked bags.
Does anyone have any idea what the reasoning behind this might be? BTW we did check on our return to CHI.