had8ley
Engineer
I have to agree with you on all points. I just want to point out that just last month we made one of three Tuscaloosa turns. Amtrak will NOT let you buy a round trip because they insist that you need 90 minutes to make the connection at a station that only has one track that serves both north and south bound trains (you can fall off of #20 and get on #19 in the same spot!). So...I have to call twice and make two one way reservations. Lucky for us the agent in Tuscaloosa looked up our res before we went and said, "you're not making a turn; they have you going back two days later." Someone in Riverside inserted the wrong date for the return; moral of the story~ sometimes it pays to get your tickets ahead of time even though I even missed the date on the ticket! Had I not had the tickets in hand I would have had a "protect" ticket (the conductor would have collected our fares) going and nothing coming back :lol:I'm a regular traveler on the CONO. Here are my thoughts and suggestions:
Regarding tickets, I prefer NOT to have my tickets printed and mailed to me. I feel much safer getting my tickets printed at the station the day of my departure. Part of my reasoning is that I don't want to risk my tickets getting lost, misplaced, or left behind when I'm heading to the station. Another reason is that it's easier to change or cancel a reservation if the tickets have not been printed.