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CCCharlie -- On the AGR site after you've logged on, click the My Account button at the top, then choose Member Information on the left side. Date of Birth is the next item under Name.

Hi! If you go to Google Maps' Satellite View, and search for "Amtrak Station Prince WV," and zoom in really close and then go to Street View (by dragging the little Yellow Man over onto the blue-highlighted highway -- the Amtrak station's sort of out from town quite a ways!), you'll see that...

Daxomni -- Yeah, you're right about the non-graphical interface -- we were pioneers, in a way! (I was a beta tester for Netscape from Version 0.2 or so, and had been a BBSer when they were all text-based.) And we weren't banking -- USBank didn't even get its online operation going until just a...

My husband and I married in 1965, graduated from college, and both went to work -- he, as a "management trainee" for a large business machines corporation, began at $4500 a year; I, as a lowly woman, started as the entire PR department in a bank at just under $3600 a year. Our rent was $85 a...

Emmy -- About that GPS -- we always take ours and simply "suction-cup" it to the window of our compartment. It tracks (along the railroad tracks!) us straight from one station to the next, so we always know where we are. And we never bothered plugging in the station addresses beforehand. Also...

Ummmm .... I don't know if this has anything to do with Chase and/or the AGR account specifically, but our identity has been compromised and our account has had to be closed and another opened with a different number, twice now in the two years we've had an AGR account -- both times right...

Shoot, Tom -- even a state station!

Monilynne -- You can check out the food court at Union Station here, and download a PDF map with names of the places here.

:) Well, my husband and I have been married going on 50 years, Penny, and he snores pretty loudly, but I don't hear him on our train trips! (Which may be one reason I enjoy train trips so much, come to think of it ....)

It may not cost you any points, OH! When we got our AGR tickets in April for a trip leaving Alton, IL, to Chicago for a two-zone bedroom award on the Zephyr to EMY, the AGR agent told us first of all that the ALN-CHI portion was included (which I hadn't known), and then that the upgrade to...

I don't know about now, but when I was a child in the late '40s-early '50s, my parents would put me on an overnight sleeper to far West Texas from our hometown in far East Texas, and the porter (yes, that's what they were called back in The Olden Days! :lol: ) always took excellent care of me...

Edgefan -- We were on that same train -- the car next to Henry's. Unfortunately, ALL our toilets were out the entire trip, so we all trooped into your car the whole time. Henry was a champ! And Jim -- Every train out West we've been on (a total of 10) has had a toilet problem, mostly at high...

You saw it right. It's The Lamy Station Cafe. We've seen it three times now, and every time our SWC has stopped at the Lamy station, we've seen the chef coming or going into the cafe's door. He must be a one-man operation, because the pictures on the website show him serving as well. There...

I'm so sorry to hear of your father-in-law's death, Tom. You and your wife are in our thoughts.

N.E. -- A lot, the closer it gets to March! (And particularly if my beloved Texas Longhorns are playing well). We're Kentuckians only by chance: This was the last place my husband was transferred to, and we liked it well enough to retire here.

How 'bout that -- four detailed answers (and The Traveler's ubiquitous AGR pitch) in two minutes!

Hi! I can't answer your questions about small children and checked luggage (we always travel with just a couple of carry ons), but I can answer some: 1. No meals between Austin and San Antonio, I'm afraid -- in fact, the dinner service that afternoon is ridiculously early, since the dining-car...

No, no, that's perfectly OK -- I've seen people in the lounge knitting and doing other sorts of needlework, probably often for the same reason. I knew what you meant -- these guys were just teasing you .... :huh:

Well, now, you people just have your minds in the gutter! :lol: I immediately saw that as doing needlework (not that rug-hooking is something one sees ladies doing too often on trains, but ....)

Rich ... I'm pretty sure she meant hook as in hooking rugs, etc. [says she, helpfully] :P