Amfleet
Engineer
What do you think is the most vital taks for Amtrak to under take this fiscal year to improve the quality of service offered?
I'm hoping that something like that will be installed down here at Tri-Rail stations, since Amtrak and CSX rip through some of their stations at up to 80 MPH. (Of course the guys always give a little extra horn when they're approaching a station they don't stop at).The hundreds of commuter stations along the route could use an advance warning system that tells passengers high speed trains are approaching so know one is caught by an unexpected Acela Express traveling at 135mph.
Of course this conductor was right. Once baggage is checked it is not supposed to be accessible until your final destination is reached. My only question is how would the conductor have gotten the baggage anyway? Since you didn't mention which train it was on I don't know how the baggage is handled on that particular route, but on the Superliners the baggage car is only accessible from the outside roll up/sliding door and the train would need to be stopped before the baggage could be retrieved. Was this a situation like the California San Joaquins were baggage is kept in the lower level of one of the coach cars inaccessible to passengers?battalion51 said:She requested he retrieve a bag from the baggage car because her CD player was in that bag. The request was deined. Well the woman wanted his name so she could complain because "the Conductor coming south had no trouble getting it." There should be clear cut rules for everything, including something as simple as retriveing a bag from the baggage car.
Well it was Silver Service, but regardless the baggage car can ALMOST always be accssesed from the body of the train, although in rare cases it is only accessible from the outside. I have seen cases where Conductors have retrieved baggage from the baggage car because someone inedvertently packed medication in a checked bag, but there are some that will almost always make the "customer" happy.jccollins said:Of course this conductor was right. Once baggage is checked it is not supposed to be accessible until your final destination is reached. My only question is how would the conductor have gotten the baggage anyway? Since you didn't mention which train it was on I don't know how the baggage is handled on that particular route, but on the Superliners the baggage car is only accessible from the outside roll up/sliding door and the train would need to be stopped before the baggage could be retrieved. Was this a situation like the California San Joaquins were baggage is kept in the lower level of one of the coach cars inaccessible to passengers?
You nailed it right when you mentioned standards Amfleet fan. I gave the simple case of just at stations but it truly is a system wide problem that many other transportation carriers have ironed out and set much clearer than Amtrak. But perhaps that is why Amtrak can sometimes be so amusing and comical. You can really never expect the same thing twice...
I didn't even think of that - thanks.amtrakmichigan said:JC,
"Usually" superliner trains use a Transition sleeper behind the baggage car. The crew have access to the baggage car from the one end of the transition car (the downstairs end) and access to the rest of the train on the other end of the car (the upper level).