https://railforless.us/ appears to be working for me (today, Sat 3/16) on Chrome (with the exception I have been discussing above).
Rail for Less: a fare checking site
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joelkfla
Engineer
You might need to delete cookies and site data for the site. Amtrak.com wasn't working for me on Firefox, and that fixed it.
ETA: RFL just worked for me on Firefox, but it was slower than usual.
I'm not seeing any issues in the logs. It's possible that you tried to use it during the five minutes of downtime I needed to update the Docker images.
This seems to work:
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While these two attempts do not!
ANY ROUTE SELECTED
ROUTE - SOUTHWEST CHIEF SELECTED.
FROM AMTRAK'S WEBSITE.
Fun, isn't this!
Odd:
At any rate, this is a client-side display issue and not a fundamental flaw in the data we are getting from Amtrak (thankfully).
The route list is broken, however:
This makes me wonder if @tikkisean is accidently caching the routes from past searches (the Pacific Surfliner makes no sense for these station pairs, for example).
At any rate, this is a client-side display issue and not a fundamental flaw in the data we are getting from Amtrak (thankfully).
The route list is broken, however:
This makes me wonder if @tikkisean is accidently caching the routes from past searches (the Pacific Surfliner makes no sense for these station pairs, for example).
trimetbusfan
OBS Chief
The Pacific Surfliner is probably for the itinerary that requires taking a Surfliner train to an overnight bus to the California Zephyr. It shows up if you want to do LAX-CHI.
Do you seriously think anyone here has the answers?
Devil's Advocate
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Airlines do it because they need to compete with other airlines, but Amtrak seems to think they have no competition. When it comes to my trips Amtrak is competing with driving and/or flying, and usually falling way behind. I miss the Boardman days when Amtrak acted like they did have competition and even advertised inside airport TSA bins reminding people they did not have to remove their belts and shoes to ride the train. In my view the 2010-2015 period was the apex of travel on Amtrak.
Ah, right you are!
I fixed an issue with the www subdomain, that might caused the issue you saw.
I just want to say I've used this site a number of times with Edge and I haven't really had a problem, other than those I've seemingly caused myself. Using the "back" button and/or clearing the cache seems to remedy most situations I've encountered.
Some returns are a little tedious if Amtrak offers multiple trains and mixed service for the route chosen, but then, so is the Amtrak website. Using different sorts in these instances can help, as well as displaying more returns per page. Maybe a sort by number of segments would help? I know I would like to see that.
Thanks so much, Mr. Technician, for your work on this site. I am grateful.
Some returns are a little tedious if Amtrak offers multiple trains and mixed service for the route chosen, but then, so is the Amtrak website. Using different sorts in these instances can help, as well as displaying more returns per page. Maybe a sort by number of segments would help? I know I would like to see that.
Thanks so much, Mr. Technician, for your work on this site. I am grateful.
Hey all,
I thought I'd check up on this thread as I just pushed the first major update to the site since we launched v2 last month. I apologize for the issues some of you were facing--you're correct in pointing out we had a bug with single-day searches which should now be resolved. Amtrak has not shut us down, any issues you are facing are likely an edge case we hadn't considered so always reach out and let us know so we can fix it! On that note, feel free to let Riley and I know in this thread if you're still facing these issues or have any other questions/concerns with this new update.
I thought I'd check up on this thread as I just pushed the first major update to the site since we launched v2 last month. I apologize for the issues some of you were facing--you're correct in pointing out we had a bug with single-day searches which should now be resolved. Amtrak has not shut us down, any issues you are facing are likely an edge case we hadn't considered so always reach out and let us know so we can fix it! On that note, feel free to let Riley and I know in this thread if you're still facing these issues or have any other questions/concerns with this new update.
