Dave Van
Service Attendant
I am cleaning out my garage to make room to actually park a car in there!! One box I found my Amrak ticket from July 1974 from Los Angeles Union to Davis Ca. I bought the ticket two days before departure.....not sure if pricing varied like it does today.......but my two day advance ticket was $24.75. I looked at what a ticket in Dec booked today would cost for the same trip. It was right at $57, not a huge increase by any standard. Inflation alone makes the price $123.......so it looks like Amtrak is more a bargain today than 1974. I know as a teen that $25 was a big chunk of cash back in the day. Just thinking out loud.