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    Amtrak's Least-used Stations

    Would you share the URL of this? I'd love to see similar data for other Thruway routes. Thanks.
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    Will full service dining ever return to the Western trains?

    I hope that some of you with long memories would help me with this: in discussing the current food-and-drink status with a friend, a memory popped up of drinking REALLY bad wine on Amtrak years ago. It would have been out west, possibly on CA-supported trains or LD. The wine I believe was from...
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    New Member Info Requested (re Santa Fe, NM)

    Hello--did a similar trip a few weeks ago (actually we flew in and took Amtrak #3 home, the reverse of your plan). The "on-site" airport car rental in ABQ is actually a few blocks from the airport. We stayed at the Best Western Airport hotel; their shuttle both picked us up and later took us to...
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    Thruway Bus Connections

    However, the Jefferson Lines timetable shows them with new routes from MT and ID to Spokane. Anyone know if Amtrak might utilize those routes for Empire Builder connections?
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    San Joaquin draft business plan for FY 2018-19

    http://chicoenterpriserecord.ca.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=03e310015 More about the possible Oroville bus and/or train service on San Joaquin extension
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    San Joaquin draft business plan for FY 2018-19

    I believe I have read elsewhere that the Oroville proposal, odd as it is, is related to the adding of service to Natomas. If I have this right, they feel they have the ability and can get an OK from whichever railroads are involved, to run some San Joaquin trains to Natomas (and eventually on to...
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    Maricopa-Phoenix Shuttle

    http://media.amtrak.com/2017/04/new-amtrak-thruway-shuttle-service-maricopa-maricopa-connecting-sunset-limitedtexas-eagle-passengers-phoenix-tempe/ Here's the shuttle info. On a different note, the Amtrak site also now shows a couple of Wyoming bus routes (Casper, Cheyenne, Buffalo). But no...
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    Speaking about Spokane...

    Hello-- will be arriving in Spokane on the eastbound Empire Builder from Portland, and looking for a hotel convenient to the station if possible, as well as tips on how to spend the next day. Thanks!
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    Ideas for New Thruway Bus Routes

    Following up on Eric's post -- having more Thruways where both beginning and end points are Amtrak cities (bolded in his list like Baltimore-Harrisburg), to get business both dropping-off-from and picking-up-for a train seems better than a bus that serves only as a feeder to one train.
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    Ideas for New Thruway Bus Routes

    How about Tucson-San Diego? Omaha-Kansas City? Related comment: the Amtrak.com System timetable's maps (and the National System map) are outdated in regard to showing Thruway bus routes.
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    Looking for Skeena-Related Recommendations

    Just wanted to mention that Wendy from John Steel has been ill, now back at work. I can't fault her for not replying to my interest since she was in the hospital!
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    Looking for Skeena-Related Recommendations

    After I read this suggestion, I looked unsuccessfully online for Fresh Tracks. I did find John Steel which has great options on their website but they don't answer their phone or respond to messages!
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    Looking for Skeena-Related Recommendations

    Hello -- would very much appreciate your thoughts on any or all of these questions: 1) Taking the Skeena one-way in mid-late Sept (scenery and weather) 2) Which direction? (I am currently thinking of ferry to Pr Rupert, Skeena eastbound to Jasper) 3) Overnight hotel in Pr George...
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    AGR website issues

    Hello -- just tried to log onto the amtrakguestrewards.com site for the first time in months. Does anyone know if it's having a temporary disruption or what is happening? This site can’t be reachedamtrakguestrewards.com refused to connect.
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    Parking at San Bernardino

    I had the same question a few years ago. My companion and I scouted the area around the SB station and actually could not find a close lot that even allowed overnight parking! I called the Amtrak 800# and was fortunate to reach someone who know the area and the situation. She said, "board in...
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    Largest Metros Without Amtrak Service (How to Serve Them?)

    Regarding Medford/Ashland -- There are still tracks over the very significant pass between Northern California and Southern Oregon (Ashland). In fact as per this article in the local paper, freight service was recently restored, though the line gets limited use. Another hopeful idea might be to...
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    New timetable book out (sort of)

    also--the bus from Scranton to/from Philadelphia is missing from the map. By the way, is there anywhere a thread discussing Thruway routes in general?
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    New timetable book out (sort of)

    I just picked up the new print schedule. Leafing through, I see at least a couple of new and improved Thruway buses, but the map at the front of the schedule doesn't reflect the additions, nor are they singled out by Mr Boardman as he did in the last schedule. Specifically: the...
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