I don't remember seeing you, but I got off the Eagle and went right over to the station. Did you board the 1:30 TRE to Dallas? I was riding the front car with a couple other rail fans. I didn't wait around the north (east) bound Eagle because I've already seen in a few dozen times. I just went home from DAL in the car.
I was on the 1:30 but in car 3, hoping to avoid a HUGE group of kids on some kind of outing; I thought they were headed into car 1, but as my luck had it, as soon as I settled in upstairs, here they came! I then caught the 3:55 back to FTW and hopped right over to the Heartland Flyer for the run back to Norman.
You got MY VOTE for the BEST AGR POINTS RUN of the day!
First, you abandon Amtrak for your ride back and then you expect more bonus points from Amtrak for doing so? Sheesh :blink: :lol:Biggest problem however was that 148 was late, causing us to just miss our intended ride back to NYC. It was pulling away from the southbound platformas we walked down the northbound platform.
I think that we deserve extra bonus points for that.
Indeed. And the friendly conductor would have been our (AU's) own BlueJeanGirl.
Oh! Perhaps not, then. I thought perhaps she was the only Lady conductor on that run. She is very friendly (not just 'pretty' friendly
) and has a good time, and is otherwise as you describe, but is not blonde. 
I concur with your assessment — I believe that the number of AGR members could be dramatically higher on the main corridors, including NEC and California service. That's why I include a ratio of corridor passengers to total passengers in my original estimate of 11,764 AGR travelers earning 170 points.
But the VAST majority of traffic is in the corridors on any given day.
This makes ZERO mathematical sense. The NYP-NRO trip costs at lest $20. You can buy points for about 40/$1. (550 for $13.75 currently.) The ride back from NRO to NYP wasn't free, so increase the trip cost. And a very good estimate of points for this promotion is 200, 300 tops. So those (say) 300 points could be purchased for about $8. Why pay over $20, and endure the hassle of a round trip to nowhere, to "take part in the promotion" when you could get more points for less money by doing nothing?
Many of us took trips for under $10. The share of 2M points are on top of whatever other points we get, from summer promos, select status or other tricks. So instead of 200 or 300 points, we are looking at 500 or 600 points. Although points can be purchased, but there is a limit of 10,000 per year.
Are you referring to our Members of Congress??
For many of us, the chance to relax on a train for a few hours, or in some cases a few minutes is often worth more than the points; in my case I made an excellent day vacation out of it and gained about 5 pounds in doing so
The xtra few hundred or so points are just a nice bonus for doing something we already enjoy.
Right, I'm looking at different sets of numbers:
Agreed - I spent $20 on a short trip because it was a nice excuse to do so on that line. Buffalo to Niagara Falls is off the mainline, so it's scenery I wouldn't get going to New York or Chicago. And if I want to take the train to Toronto again, I'll probably drive to Niagara Falls, ON and take VIA from there, to bypass the 2 hour wait for customs. And I think it's an interesting little stretch of track - there's an curvy elevated section through North Tonawanda that I enjoy as a very unusual view of the town. It's also fun because I'm familiar with all of the landmarks and it's interesting to me to work out where the train is ("Oh! So that's what the other side of that looks like!").For many of us, the chance to relax on a train for a few hours, or in some cases a few minutes is often worth more than the points; in my case I made an excellent day vacation out of it and gained about 5 pounds in doing so
