Next time you ride Amtrak ask you conductor if he or she has a punch. If so ask if they would punch something for you.
No thank you. I don't want my travel companion to get a bloody nose.Next time you ride Amtrak ask you conductor if he or she has a punch. If so ask if they would punch something for you.
There's some good money in that!I hope I never get "punched" by a conductor!
Amtrak requires paper tickets be turned in. Including things like a step up ticket for a VRE pass rider to ride Amtrak.SEPTA and NJ Transit still have some. I always get a paper ticket into Philly from NJ (even with the Key thing now), and my tickets to/from work on NJT are paper. I will check next time to see if they punch them--never really paid much attention. Sometimes on NJT they just tear them, so you can't use them again.
I remember keeping the stub though. And the perforation was really fragile too, so the point where I'd tape the stub to my 10-ride. I remember using the last ride once, and the conductor ripped right through the tape after three quick punches of the ticket and twice of the stub.Amtrak requires paper tickets be turned in. Including things like a step up ticket for a VRE pass rider to ride Amtrak.SEPTA and NJ Transit still have some. I always get a paper ticket into Philly from NJ (even with the Key thing now), and my tickets to/from work on NJT are paper. I will check next time to see if they punch them--never really paid much attention. Sometimes on NJT they just tear them, so you can't use them again.
Those ticket punches make formidable defense weapons, if necessary....I hope I never get "punched" by a conductor!
Here's one of the transfers punched by a conductor on Capitol Corridor:In general I like the e-ticketing and I think it's great what those scanners do, but I really really miss the ticket punching. For those that don't know, each conductor had / has their own personal design, like a signature. If you worked as a Ticket Agent for the N&W 50 years ago, you could look at someones ticket in a scrapbook and say "oh yeah, old Casey Jones was your Conductor that day on the Pocahontas." Won't be able to tell who scanned your ticket 50 years from now.
But that's technology for better and worse.
Correction: the tagline was “How ‘bout a nice Hawaiian punch?”Still see that on the LIRR. The last post made me think of the old Hawaiian Punch commercials...."Anyone want a nice Hawaiian punch?"
He definitely is.Thinking about it more, I am pretty sure you are right....
I thought it was multiple sizes including 12 oz. Some were concentrates to be mixed with water, as well as powders. Ready to drink seemed to come in a variety of sizes, although they weren't any kind of pull-tab, where you needed a can piercer.I went back and watched a couple of them after I posted.... Back in those days, HP (not Hewlett-Packard) came in big metal cans (46 oz?)
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