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I'm also on a 19th of the month billing cycle. No notification of a new statement by email and I have not yet seen a paper statement but Informed Delivery is saying something was arriving from BofA yesterday but I won't be able to get it until tomorrow. But I just checked online and the 9/19...

Train #6 is the eastbound CZ. People here use train names and numbers synonymously.

I don't use the card much - both my wife and I have them to keep our AGR points safe between infrequent train trips and have one recurring charge that goes to each to keep them active. Plus we're in the middle of a multi-stage move so no guarantee the new cards will go the current address or get...

Definitely sometime in early 1986. I had booked a trip for Aug 1986 close to a year in advance when they weren’t included and by the date of travel, they were and I received them even though I hadn’t paid the higher “meals included“ fare. Even better, when I was downgraded from Sleeper to Coach...

It wasn't until I rode the Canadian and saw both sections and real roomettes ("Cabin for One" in ViaSpeak) that I realized that the Superliner Roomette is just an enclosed section where the single traveler has the entire space (a product which Pullman did offer for sections). For the single...

Keep in mind that of the East Coast long-distance routes, the only ones that go back all the way to 5/1/1971 are the Cardinal (originally George Washington/James Whitcomb Riley) and the Silver services. The rest were added later and so do not have numbers assigned in the Amtrak's original 1971...

I rode 5 CHI-OAK departing CHI on 9/9/83. This was about a month into the D&RGW routing following the Thistle mudslide but before it was re-routed onto the ex-WP west of SLC so after SLC it was up to OGD. 35's cars came off in SLC, 25's cars in OGD. IIRC (and I very well might not), we passed...

Correct, it was a concert with the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus. But the real issue was the lack of the 9:40pm train on my line (MD-W). We weren't willing to wait almost two hours for the next train. And it's not as if Lyric is constantly changing start times to target and end time that...

Doesn't help. We were at Lyric last night for a planned "approximately 90 minutes" program. But with train choices home being 8:40pm and 10:40pm (9:40pm was annulled with the COVID reduced schedule), Metra was a non-starter for us. 8:40pm might have worked if the stars all aligned but the...

Well, that is kind of odd. Could be driven by maintenance needs (needed it at LGA overnight - perhaps LGA was one of the stations that did weekly and monthly checks on the DC-10). In what no doubt seemed odd scheduling, United had bought two 747-222Bs which were used on JFK-NRT. JFK was their...

Ah, Cape Air. Unknown to many, between 2004 and 2018, Cape Air flew as United Express between Guam, Rota, and Saipan. Quite a distance from Cape Cod. Two planes there to support a schedule needing just one which became a problem when one was down for scheduled maintenance and then the other...

A lot of that is utilization flying meaning the plane flies in a market that doesn't really need it or it doesn't fly at all for those hours. A good example of what causes this is mid-morning departures. As a very simplified example, let's say you want a transcontinental capable plane departing...

Flip side of it was when I went to Vancouver to ride the Canadian to Toronto in 2019, the CBSA agent asked me what I would be doing in Canada and when I said I was joining a group to "ride the Canadian, the train to Toronto," she merely said "sounds like fun" and sent me on my way.

I wish GFL (Glens Falls) lasted into the 90s. I think service there was gone by sometime in the 70s. I flew a light plane into GFL in 1992 and in the terminal, there was still evidence that there had been an Allegheny ticket counter (signage gone but enough paint still there). BAC-111s were...

Back around 1980, I frequently saw the LSL pass through Sandusky, OH. A typical consist (from my log of a trip on 8/3/81) was NY Bag/Dorm, NY Slumbercoach, 2 NY Sleepers, 4 NY Coaches, NY Lounge, NY Diner, 3 BOS coaches, BOS sleeper, BOS Baggage (15 cars - separate BOS Lounge operated ALB-BOS)...

The merger with Allegheny and the name change to US Air were separate events. Allegheny (Agony Airlines) acquired Mohawk (Slo-hawk) in 1972. The name change to US Air was in 1979 (which I remember from flying on an Allegheny plane that had already been repainted but I had not yet heard of the...

From my experience working for an airline (although not in anything to do with Reservations), there seem to be two approaches to building connections. The first, which Amtrak seems to use (and, I believe, Southwest Airlines), which is build all the connections you want to sell in advance and...

I got fooled. I assumed this was about the original DL&W Boonton Line. This is talking about what was originally the Erie Greenwood Lake line. Post-merger, the lower part of the Greenwood Lake line was combined with outer end of the original Boonton Line at Mountain View to form the Greenwood...

Did you miss there I said this was March 16, 2020? The world was already into the pandemic shutdown. Where I had been should have been of great importance to them. Whether or not I had been to a COVID hotspot was of importance to Canada as that was one of the questions on the Nexus kiosk I used...

They seem to be obsessed with food. I flew from Vancouver back to the U.S. via Houston on a red-eye which departed after CBP closes so it's cleared on arrival at Houston like most international flights. It was the morning of March 16, 2020. We were three days into the world shutting down...