the_traveler
Engineer
I understand the rule Joe, but it seems unfair to those boarding there or any other station without checked baggage service. If you go from CHI to SAN, you can carry in 2 bags and check 3, for a total of 5 bags. However, if you leave from GRR (or any other station without checked baggage service), you're limited to 2 bags only!I don't know of any of the crews in GRR that checks the size of the bags, but they do tend to enforce the 2 bag per person (excluding normal other bags listed in the policy) rule. You will be riding on Superliner equipment, so the luggage racks have to serve all 72 passengers! There isn't any checked baggage on the Pere Marquette, so long as you can load your bags by yourself, you should be OK.
Why are those boarding in CHI, DEN, NYP or PVD more important than those in KIN or WIP or GRR or NDL?