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Living in the Midwest, it's actually nice to have something based upon Central Time (rather than the usual Eastern or sometimes Western) for once. Now, if they really wanted to confuse everyone they could have used Mountain Time in Arizona!

Regarding Metra, numerous platforms on the system (particularly at older/legacy stations or along elevated embankments where platform lengths might be limited by what fits in between viaducts at intersecting streets) can not accommodate the entire length of a longer train. It's important...

Somehow, I must have missed that notice. (I knew the availability was going away, but presumed on the 23rd.) Since I did access the account during business hours on that date, but couldn't later that evening, I suppose there was an unclear cutoff time, too. Not the greatest in coordination...

So...this is weird. My monthly closing date was earlier this week. It was my intention to pay off the balance before the transfer, which I did...but with some challenge of choosing a payment date. I decided, a couple of days later, that I actually wanted to use the Amtrak BOA card to add a...

I think the challenge for Metra with Lolla is tons of teenagers. Though taking the train from other festivals, even just after a major Ravinia concert, can be pretty crazy, too.

I've been noting this as the problem and solution for over a year, now. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/10/18/23411303/cta-ghost-buses-trains-rescheduling-commuters-letters

I don't think I've ever gotten more than one point for Ventra in Chicago.

It seems that the crux of the matter is that human passengers were viewed, simply, as delayed "freight." The human element was entirely ignored by both Amtrak and the railroad companies over whose roads this coupled train(s) traveled. Frankly, if executives were fired (as they should well be)...

With historic bus and train rides: https://www.transitchicago.com/75th/#daleyplaza

Maybe this bodes well for high speed rail.

Not a CPAP, but a friend with a ventilator rode in a handicapped sleeper room a couple of years ago. I'm not sure how they set it up, exactly. It's possible it stayed attached to her wheelchair.

I was wondering if this would end up as the case, especially considering that Metra operates the service, itself, on these lines.

BOA offers a credit check feature, with updated FICO scores, online with one's account. Will FNBO offer something similar?

Looks like my address is not eligible for informed delivery. I miss my old mailman.

As one, late, railfan friend once commented (as we watched a slide show of the early Amtrak days), "EVERY trip was a fantrip!"

Around 6:30, the special rolls by:

What they're saying is, "No free lunch!"

https://www.card.fnbo.com/landing/amtr So, the first month's balance is being paid, compliments of W.B.?

My initial reaction was, "Who the hell are THEY?!"

Private varnish is, regularly, seen at Union Station. It is RARE to see it at LaSalle, as us currently their layover through tonight.