Aaron
Lead Service Attendant
I'm looking into going to Glacier National Park next year from Tucson. On the Amtrak website, I can book TUS to WGL just fine, taking the #1 Sunset Limited to LAX, the #14 Coast Starlight up to PDX, and the #8 Empire Builder over to Glacier. What I can't do is book the same thing going back south. The connections look valid time wise, it's just the website won't give me any option to book the trip. I can book WGL to LAX just fine with the same Builder->Starlight connection, or I can book SPK to TUS with the same EB->CS->SL connections. I just can't book direct travel from any station east of Spokane on the Builder to anywhere on the Sunset east of LAX.
Yes, I know that these routings are all entered in by hand at Amtrak, but that seems like a huge chunk of potential routings for them to not include. Does anyone know of any good reason for that? Or is it more likely that they just forgot or never got around to entering these after the Sunset schedule change re-enabled the connection from the Starlight to the eastbound Sunset?
I know these could be booked by a multi-city routing, but my problem is that I want to do this as an AGR trip, and the strong consensus here is that if the website doesn't spit it out as valid, they won't book it for you. Does anyone think that they'd make any exception here given the obviousness of this routing?
Yes, I know that these routings are all entered in by hand at Amtrak, but that seems like a huge chunk of potential routings for them to not include. Does anyone know of any good reason for that? Or is it more likely that they just forgot or never got around to entering these after the Sunset schedule change re-enabled the connection from the Starlight to the eastbound Sunset?
I know these could be booked by a multi-city routing, but my problem is that I want to do this as an AGR trip, and the strong consensus here is that if the website doesn't spit it out as valid, they won't book it for you. Does anyone think that they'd make any exception here given the obviousness of this routing?