nothing reasonable. We had a loop planned - CS Seattle to LA, SW chief to Chicago, and Empire Builder Chi-Sea. We were concerned about the bus bridge, so I called and asked if it would be possible for us to fly to Sacto, and just start our trip in Sacto on the CS from there. They said they had cancelled that trip, so we didn't have a reservation on that part of the trip. I said, "No, we had a reservation from Seattle, so our seat from Sacramento should still be available." But they said they'd cancelled it. If I hadn't called we would have been at the station tomorrow, bags packed, expecting to board. They did say we could take the rest of our trip (the SWC and EB), so I had to explain, that no, we're in Seattle and couldn't really get an the SWC in LA. Duh! If they had told us at the beginning of July that the trip was cancelled, we could possibly have made alternate arrangements. But so close to departure, plane tickets, etc. were just too expensive. And really the part we wanted the most was the CS.
They did refund the passes we had purchased to take the trip. But we are out the money for the hotel in Montana we were to stop at. If they had notified us when they canceled it, it would have been within the window to cancel the Montana reservation. But by the time we learned our tickets had been cancelled, it was too late.
