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I've gone back to school, so free time to travel is limited. Also money. However, I have about 25,000 AGR points and a mid-term break either July 2-6 or July 8-11. (Previously scheduled appt at home on the 7th.) Would appreciate suggestions for 2 or 3 day round trips for 2 people using AGR...

If we are a party of 3 (1 disabled adult, 1 caregiver, 1 adult parent). I (the parent) pay for the all fares with my AGR number on the tickets, how do the points work? The other 2 people don't have AGR accounts. We would get a discount due to the disabled adult. Do I get points for my travel...

Thinking of a summer (June or July) trip to Williamsburg from PA. Decent daylight (about 8 hrs) connections via the NE Regional but these are all coach trains. Any way to do this on a train with dining car and roomettes? I'd consider doing this as an AGR trip if so. Also anyone have advice on...

Anybody know details re a derailment that seriously disrupted Amtrak's Keystone service on Friday afternoon the 30th? Some westbound Keystone trains were cancelled. Some were combined. Pax going west of Lancaster were bused from that station, so I assume the problem was west of Lancaster and...

About 2 weeks ago I enjoyed watching a 1952 (B & W) movie set about 90 % on a fictional LD train - the Golden West Limited - that was supposed to run CHI to La Junta to ABQ to LA. I think they said it was a "Central Pacific" train. They said this was the 1st time the film had been shown on...

just joined the choice hotels loyalty program since it is an amtrak partner and the chains are more in my price range than some other partners. anyone have any experience with this partner.

sorry about the lack of capitalization. working on my mac from home to the server at work does that. our sca carlos came to take our dinner order before the train left chi. he told us he would be serving us in addition to the entire adjacent sleeping car. i think we were the only revenue pax in...

We had a good visit in SAF, wrapping up Sunday morning at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, where I went out into the courtyard at 11am to use my cell phone to call the shuttle to verify our pickup time for the trip to Flagstaff. The SWC was on time so we met the shuttle back at our B & B for the...

My adult son and I recently returned from a 12 day vacation via Amtrak both ways. Rented a car for about 36 hrs in Santa Fe. The rest was all public transportation. Much more relaxing for me. We left Harrisburg PA on the afternoon of 9/14 on the Pennsylvanian. No checked baggage from this...

Recently rode CL and SWC from PA to AZ and back with my handicapped son (trip report will be posted shortly). On the CL out of CHI coming home his adaptive stroller would not fit thru the door into the H room. The rear wheel hubs caught on the door frame. It appeared the room door had been...

Picked up all our tickets for our 9/14 trip this past Friday at a staffed station so i could make sure everythng was OK and have any corrections made right there if needed. When I checked the tickets for all the trip segmensts I found that on the westbound segments for the CL and and SWC I am...

We'll be going out west and back on the CL and the SWC in a couple of weeks. My handicapped son and I will probably want/need some meals brought to us in our roomette. Especially breakfast, as that will enable me to get up and get Matthew dressed, cleaned up and breakfasted before I need to get...