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Just curious how widespread this is. I used to be a Select Plus member, but my Amtrak travel has dropped off to almost 0 especially on paid fares. Now that the AGR points are gone I haven't been traveling much at all. I just got the email below today. I do have a reservation on the books that...

Not really a full blown trip report, but I thought I would take a few minutes to write up a little something about a rail journey I took last week. As I keep chasing new countries to visit the list starts to include more and more places I know less and less about. Myanmar would fall into that...

Kind of surprised there is no thread for this already here. Saw this article yesterday I thought for sure there would be some discussion about it. Rest of the article here. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/nyregion/mayor-de-blasio-to-propose-streetcar-line-linking-brooklyn-and-queens.html...

I wrote this report for another site, but thought I would post it here. As well. Hope you enjoy. I was able to sneak a couple extra days off from work the weekend before, so the question became very quickly where could I sneak off too. Looking at fares, and assisted by ExpertFlyer I saw an...

In a couple of weeks I am off to a new part of Southeast Asia for me. I have been through Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, so I have a pretty good sense of what its like to in and around Southeast Asia. Although I am new to Malaysia and Indonesia. I will be traveling alone, so...

Fair warning its an insanely long report, so I'd recommend having a little bit of time to get through it. It's just one part of what is becoming an even longer report about my trip to Asia. I hope you enjoy it. I will write more about my journey getting to North Korea, but I want to put some of...

Well it went from being a couple of years to a couple of days in between my long distance train rides. After a couple of days at home handling a family emergency and a couple family functions. I found myself waking up on a friends couch after an enjoyable evening at a friend’s celebration...

It has been far to long since I have been aboard a long distance Amtrak train. I was sitting on about 100,000 AGR points waiting for the right time to work on riding the few Amtrak long distance services that I haven’t ridden yet. With the impending devaluation I knew that it was time to get...

I'm sorry this is a rookie question that I know I should know the answer to, but I am at a loss. I'm working on burning my miles here, and a friend of mine has decided he is game to give Amtrak a shot. I know rooms are the same number of points for 1 or 2 people in a room, but what if you have...

Maybe its just me, but I just tried to sign into my AGR account, and it longer says Member Number or email address it only will take your member number now. Seems odd to take a step backwards.

Another October another trip to attend the Amtrak Unlimited Annual Gathering. For the 5th year in a row I found myself in transit toward what would certainly be an enjoy weekend. My flight to San Francisco was scheduled to leave at 10AM, so at 7AM I found myself driving to my favorite off...

In a bizarre case of being in the right place at the right time I have another extended stopover in Cantina I have roughly 28 hours to play with in this case. I am landing at around 2pm on a Saturday and leaving at 8PM on Sunday. I have already booked my hotel to be 1 block from Catania Centrale...

Sorry it took so long to put together, but I thought I would write a little bit about my time in Japan to help “wrap up” my thread. First off all I would like to thank the members here who no matter the question go out to their way to provide as much detailed information as they possibly can...

http://7online.com/traffic/talks-break-down-over-potential-lirr-strike/160009/ Yikes. I can't imagine the NY Metro Area without the LIRR.

I have a trip this upcoming August to the far east. I built my flight connections in such a way that I have a 20 hour layover in Japan with the idea being it would give me a chance to experience some of the high speed rail the country has to offer. I would also like to work in a ride on the...

The time has finally arrived to turn the point balance I have into a trip that finishes most of the missing pieces I have inside of the Amtrak system. While taking advantage of the overnight stop overs that are allowed in certain destinations. I have finally nailed down what I think will be the...

In January I will be in Vietnam for a few weeks, and was looking at taking a train from Saigon (Ho-Chi-Min City) to Da Nang has anyone here had any experiences on the Vietnamese national railroad? I will be traveling with a native speaker, so I'm not really worried to much about the language...

I know there is work on going on around portions of the NEC in NJ with the goal of getting the Acela to 165 I just thought any kind of real speed increase was still years away. Although on Page 4 of Amtrak Ink for August/September I found this. I am not familiar with the time line on the...

There isn’t all that much I can write about what ended up being roughly 18 minutes of actual time on the train, but I wanted to take a minute and share my thoughts and experiences onboard the Shanghai Meglev train. They only run the train at its max speed of 430 km/h (267 MPH) for a few hours a...

HereI thought I would take a minute to write something up to match the photographs I took while at National Train Day in Philadelphia. I started out my day at Metropark where I met up with Jishnu (jis) and Piotr (NJCoastExp) where we chatted for a little while before boarding a very crowded...