Recent content by Nickrapak

I've earned AGR miles on United flights even without the codeshare; just drop your AGR number in when booking your flight and they pay 1 mile per mile flown. Don't know if it's a bug in the system, but I'm milking it as long as I can.

They're starting to cancel tomorrow AM's trains as well. I was scheduled to leave out of PHL tomorrow on 2100, and just got an email that it was canceled.

The biggest problem with any train from Tyrone to the State College area would be the line from Milesburg to Pleasant Gap. The line from Tyrone to Milesburg is actually one of the straightest, flattest pieces of track west of Harrisburg. Currently it's Class 3, but I'm sure you could get it to...

You mean like Jefferson (Hospital) Station and AT&T Station in Philly? http://articles.philly.com/2014-09-08/news/53527754_1_pattison-station-septa-broad-street-subway

Well, I just got back home and found this in my inbox, delivered about half an hour after I arrived at PHL: Only about 6 hours late. Now that's customer service!

I think almost their entire system is down. I'm traveling BOS-PHL today, and no ticketing options worked. The lady at the ticket counter just printed me off a confirmation and said it would be good enough, since the conductors' handsets are down as well.

What part of Reading? My dad's from East Reading, and while I love going to the city every once in a while (Tack's cheesesteaks, soft pretzels from Bell Alley, and Crystal Palace hot dogs are some of my favorite foods), I can't imagine living there with the city in the condition it's in...

It was opening weekend at Saratoga Springs racetrack. My guess is that Amtrak dressed up the Adirondack to impress the horse racing crowd.

Worthy of note is that while there was unprecedented deficit spending during WWII, in 1956, the debt/GDP ratio was below where it is today and on a downward trend. In addition, 75% of the WWII debt was held by the American public. When that debt was paid back, it shocked the country with a...

Talk about luck! If the P42 in Canada didn't fail, she would have run headlong into a passenger car instead of an unoccupied locomotive.

Tyrone, PA is situated on a curve. It used to be in a wye, but the third track was taken out decades ago.

Before reading the rest of the post, I thought that was a picture of a prepackaged soft-bake cookie and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream. But a pot pie? Never would have guessed that.

The Keystones go from the most populous city in the state to the most politically-connected city in the state. Somehow, I don't think that the service will be allowed to end.

FTFY:

Question: How often does the Hoosier State run without any additional cars from Beech Grove? I'm thinking that Amtrak might be able to argue before Congress that the Hoosier State serves as a "revenue deadhead" in that the train would have to run anyway to move cars from Chicago to Beech Grove...