Recent content by ericr

I took the trip on Saturday and filled it out while waiting for my train back to NJ. I was actually commenting to my girlfriend, who came on the trip with me, that the survey was actually decent. I didn't feel like I wanted to stop half way through answering 500 boring "on a scale of 1 to 10"...

No catenary also.

Is the on-board ticket still one of those duplicate/triplicate forms that are punched? Or have they progressed to actually printing them out?

I can see them doing that to reduce vandalism. I know highways that are numbered 666 (or some variant thereof) tend to get their signs stolen quite frequently. Not saying that someone will steal a engine, maybe graffiti.

I think it'd be best just to call and ask about getting points for on-board tickets. I don't think I've ever had the missing points form work for conductor-issued tickets.

I've seen most most of the people I know from Pittsburgh abbreviate it PGH.

If people want an even closer look, this was posted on Amtrak's blog (link to a huge picture).

It's part of the social aspect that every company is trying to get into. It's suppose to be friendly competition among people who participates. I used it just to check off station I've been to. It was terrible slow and frequently didn't work.

Yup, you got it.

Nope. Hint 1: 3 trains total stop here daily.

I haven't gone on any excursion this years, so I'm in for this one. Are we up to 60 for the private car, yet?

I guess it's my turn. Hopefully this should be an easy one.

Parkesburg?

The 7th Ave exit. It's the longish hallway opposite the information booth with the stairs to LIRR on the left and NJ Transit on the right. There will be fairly wide stairs flanked by escalators. http://jasongibbs.com/pennstation/ On the second map, it's on the right-middle.

I don't quite understand what "Medium-Distance Train" mean. Originally I thought it was the long distance trains that were not overnight (and no sleepers), but I've found a couple instances that contradicted that. I don't think it really matters much though.