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I guess they're worried enough about some significant delay pushing those trains' arrivals past midnight on the 16th and thus potentially stranding them. For the eastbound trains, I could see that. The westbound trains (particularly Chief and Builder), they ought to be able to get in before...

Amtrak only controls (through Michigan DOT ownership) from ~Dearborn (I don’t know if the Dearborn station is in their territory or not) to east of Battle Creek, then west of Battle Creek to Porter. From Dearborn to West Detroit is Conrail Shared Assets, then CN from West Detroit to Pontiac...

If they are automatically switching people to the new FNBO card, I don’t see how they could automatically keep the BofA card open as well. Fundamentally, these are credit accounts, and I’m under the impression that a bank can’t just automatically open a new credit account/credit line. That’s...

The one “good” thing about 391/392 being cancelled is it frees up a ton of Superliners to plug gaps in other consists.

They are listed as separate options because they come from different inventory. But as others noted, conductors may group passengers by destination, regardless of ticket, to make it easier to ensure everyone winds up at the right stop. It's more of an issue at smaller stations where the...

Per wikipedia ( Lockheed Constellation - Wikipedia ) the Lockheed Constellation has the record for the longest nonstop piston-powered passenger flight, taking over 23 hours to fly from London to San Francisco. Not sure what the technicality was for that record vs. the 30-hour nonstop flight...

The Surfliner needs extra capacity, and there’s no other way to grow the fleet in the short term (new bilevels aren’t on order).

Because ridership was extremely low, combined with the operational complexities bratkinson noted.

That’s not standby, which is what your original post said. That’s a booking change. And it’s really not that different from how airlines handle it. Same-day change to a confirmed seat, depending on the circumstance, can still require paying the fare difference when flying (at least, that’s...

“Standby” in the sense that airlines do it will never practically work on Amtrak. On an airline, they log every passenger passing through the gate, and have a complete manifest of all boarded passengers prior to departure, usually completing the process 10 minutes before scheduled departure...

Still 6 sets.

AKL-ORD at 16h45 a few years ago for me.

There are plenty of advantages to having train tickets sold through a common booking platform with an airline. True, a passenger can book both tickets independently, but you’re adding a step which a lot of people aren’t going to necessarily want to do. For those who will, you are relying on...

I doubt it means anything. I got the exact same deal on both Chase (though, strangely, not all of my Chase cards, only one of them) and BofA (I don’t have an Amtrak card with BofA). I will often see those kinds of deals being offered by both Chase and BofA, and having multiple Chase cards...

On the other hand, you’re probably not going to find a single large corporation out there in this country with tens of thousands of public-facing employees where the rank and file have positive feelings about executive compensation.

The Sunset Limited has been around since Amtrak started. The Florida extension occurred in 1993, but the Sunset’s “Amtrak inception” was May 1, 1971. In fact, the Sunset Limited is the longest continuously operating named passenger train in US history, having run since 1894.

I’ve never heard of PTC enforcing station stops. There are still a number of instances of flag stops on railroads (don’t know about Amtrak specifically), and PTC hasn’t changed that at all.

Those cars were retired years before the issue of “axle count” cars was ever even on anybody’s radar. Further, a lot of those cars were actually taken out of service before Amtrak officially ended M&E service because of their nasty tendency to derail. Any money put into trying to find and...

Not solid trainsets, but some of the cars in service are married pairs. I was in one such pair about a week ago. You mean like Amfleet IIs and Viewliners?

The agent is correct. Despite popular myth on here, there is actually no way to "link" separate reservations in a way that will generate any kind of automatic recognition or misconnect protection. "Linking" reservations, at best, consists of entering text comments onto the reservations telling...