Coast Starlight Restart

[Green Maned Lion]

Is it possible they might actually be sold out with pent-up demand?

 

[yarrow]

it continues to amaze me how screwed up amtrak has had the cs situation since day 1 of the slide and amtrak's incompetence in this matter has nothing to do with the slide but only with their own machinations

 

[darien-l]

Is it possible they might actually be sold out with pent-up demand?

Curious how starting on 5/6, they're wide open.

 

[darien-l]

For what it's worth here's the official press release from Amtrak about the partial restoration of Coast Starlight:

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServe...95&ssid=180

 

[sechs]

Is it possible they might actually be sold out with pent-up demand?

Curious how starting on 5/6, they're wide open.

Today's NARP Hotline News reports that sleepers through 5/6 are being held to rebook displaced passengers.

 

[darien-l]

Today's NARP Hotline News reports that sleepers through 5/6 are being held to rebook displaced passengers.

Thanks, that makes sense. The quote from the 4/11 NARP Hotline News is "Amtrak has blocked until Monday, April 14 the sale of sleeper space for trains operating through May 6 to allow previously-booked passengers to be reaccommodated."

Would be great if Amtrak had this on their website, though, to avoid confusion.

 

[sechs]

Honestly, I think the only folks confused are us, because we know the sleepers are going and can't possibly have been booked that quickly.

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Thats often a problem I see on enthusiasts sites- a belief people will be confused by things they can't be confused by, because they don't know enough to be confused.

A lounge/coach/train attendant doing something out of protocol confuses me because I know the protocol. It does not confuse the average pax who doesn't know Amtrak inside and out. If I'm on the Lake Shore Limited and see the train pull out towards the North Shore tunnels, I'm going to be confused as hell. Most passengers are going to completely unaware of why I would be confused.

 

[darien-l]

Perhaps "confused" wasn't quite the right word. What I was imagining is people looking up sleeper availability on Coast Starlight, seeing that it's all sold out, shrugging their shoulders and giving up their trip (or flying to their destination). This falls under the general category of "confusion", even though these people wouldn't even know they're confused -- they'd simply think the sleepers are all sold out. And Amtrak is potentially losing customers due to this. They really should've put up a message along the lines of "sleeper accomodations on Coast Starlight for departures between 4/15 and 5/6 are currently on hold, but they will be released after 4/14 so please check again after that date."

 

[Larry H.]

We have a bedroom booked on the 19th going south out of Frisco, I will see how booked they are?

 

[Rail Freak]

5/6[/u] northbound and 5/7 southbound. Stay tuned.
EDIT: full startup one day later than my original post.

I'm a newbie, please tell me this will be fixed by Sept 08!

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Barring the mountain suddenly collapsing again, it will be.

 

[socalsteve]

Barring the mountain suddenly collapsing again, it will be.

While riding past the LA yard this morning, I got a 2-second glance at what I think was a repainted Parlour Car. I can't confirm that, but I'll look for it on the way home tonight. I hadn't seen the Parlour Car in the new colours yet

 

[MrFSS]

Barring the mountain suddenly collapsing again, it will be.

While riding past the LA yard this morning, I got a 2-second glance at what I think was a repainted Parlour Car. I can't confirm that, but I'll look for it on the way home tonight. I hadn't seen the Parlour Car in the new colours yet

Snap a photo if you can!

 

[socalsteve]

Barring the mountain suddenly collapsing again, it will be.

While riding past the LA yard this morning, I got a 2-second glance at what I think was a repainted Parlour Car. I can't confirm that, but I'll look for it on the way home tonight. I hadn't seen the Parlour Car in the new colours yet

Snap a photo if you can!

I couldn't get a photo, but it was indeed the Parlour Car. On the blue stripe under the windows, where it says "Superliner" on most cars, it says (in bigger type) "Santa Lucia Highlands"

A friend on my train has a camera in her phone; she will try to get it today.