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I'm sure this has been asked before; but the search feature can't find it. Does the Silver Star #92 serve supper the second night into NYP (scheduled arrival 7:10PM)?

We all have our complaints about Amtrak, but I recently had an almost unbelievable experience. Several of my online accounts had been hacked, but it never occurred to me to check my AGR account. As I was going through my many accounts and changing the password, phone number, and user ID, if...

On Wednesday the 27th we were on enlarged and packed 92. We were stopped approaching the Petersburg station when a weird train passed us going the other way: 2 engines, 5 coaches, cafe car, and dining car. No sleepers. Later we seemed to be stopped much longer than usual at Richmond, the next...

It appears that for the second time since going to 3 day a week, Amtrak has changed its fare search page. I tried a test booking from St-Pete-Clearwater to Denver departing July 1 for two people. The result is shown below. Clicking the details drop down, shows we are dealing with a bus...

I'm planning to go from the Midwest to Florida in mid January.  Does anyone have advanced notice where the sleepers will be locating on the Capitol Limited's rump consist? Three years ago (2016) the only thing separating me from the horn was another bedroom; and it made me think I was a fool for...

I'm booked on the eastbound SWC from LMY to Raton, connecting to Thruway bus 8604 to Denver. The scheduled layover is only 15 minutes: 4:50PM to 5:05. The ticket says the bus is operated by Greyhound; and there is regularly scheduled Greyhound running only from Raton to Denver on the same...

I've been trying to find something like the old list of station codes with no success. With Chrome, if I click the menu icon in the upper RHS of the home page and then Find Station or Route, I get a blank page. With Firefox, I get a different home page; and if I click on Destinations, the...

Chicago to Sacramento

Tell me again. What is the business rationale for this?

Does anyone know if Amtrak will bring back the reduced consists this winter, specifically the Capitol Limited? I would like to go from the Midwest to Florida approximately Feb 1. But last year on the way back from Florida on the CL I was separated from the one engine by only 2 bedrooms. It...

It is getting close to a year since the BoA AGR credit cards were introduced. Back then the sign up bonus for the World card made its choice a no-brainer despite the annual fee. Would it be reasonable to think that there won't be any re-up incentives, and that I will have to look closer at the...

No one seems to be interested in this topic, at leasing searching "10% points penalty" returned no results. The only rule I could find was First of all taking 10% of a fare difference and coming up with points is strange mathematics. Secondly, it sounds like if the fare goes up or remains the...

I had a little too much time on my hands during a recent train trip and came up with the idea of a Windows computer alarm clock that tells you when its time to get to the station. You can set the alarm to go off a given number of minutes prior to the estimated time of arrival at the departure...

Discussion as to HOW you will redeem points for Amtrak travel has been non-existent here and elsewhere. Does anyone have a sneak preview? In particular I have two questions 1. Can it be done via the website? The only thing remotely relevant in the Sneak Preview FAQs is It doesn't say...

For a long time I have been asking the rhetorical question why Amtrak and bicycles is a combination of brain surgery and rocket science. So when two "hell hath frozen over" milestones occurred on almost the same day, roll-on, roll-off bike service on the Capitol Limited and the opening of the...

Every time someone complains that a route they are interested in isn't "published", someone will insist that it's to prevent round about (aka rail fan) AGR rewards. I always point out that many direct routes are not published, whereas many bizarre ones are published. Here is the mother of all...

A recent thread in which someone asked how sell an eVoucher was locked almost immediately. The first response was that eVouchers are not transferable, so one can't sell them. He then quoted Amtrak policy: A Philadelphia lawyer anyone? I don't know if you would call it selling, but about 2...

I would like to report my experience trying to invoke the sleeper exception rule. I wanted to go DEN to LAX via CZ and CS, the very example used in the guidelines. The first agent claimed to know nothing about the rule. When I quoted it chapter and verse, he put me on hold for quite a while...

It was a first, at least for me. I was on 383, the night train to Qunicy, about 35 miles from its destination when the lights went out. The conductress got on the PA and said don't be alarmed, the lights were turned off deliberatlly because the engineer needed to reboot, as we began to coast...

The law of averages claims that you can beat the odds only so long before they catch up with you in a big way. Our 2014 nine segment winter journey was a case in point. It took us from Fort Madison, IA (FMD) to Santa Fe (LMY), then to Clearwater/St Petersburg (STP) by way of CHI, WAS, and...