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They may have changed it. I’m pretty sure I had read at least once that you couldn’t add someone to a reservation after the fact, but now Amtrak.com explicitly says that you can. If they are able to add another passenger to a res, why can’t they change one of the names?

Wow. Just wow. Absolutely fantastic writing and photos. Agree with Dakota that this is by far the best report I’ve read in a long time. I really need to take the Builder someday. Have you taken the Portland section?

No prob. :)

That still misses the fact that the statistics he is referring to were not calculated at all in the way he’s claiming they were. You are much more likely to survive a flight than you are to survive a train.

Indeed. You can change your train, date, or accommodation online (though certain promos sometimes prohibit online modifications), but nothing more. It explicitly says that for more complicated/significant modifications such as adding a passenger, you have to call.

You should be able to call and have an agent fix it (I know you can add someone to a reservation, so I don’t see why a name change for the second passenger would be an issue). Depending on the fare type you opted for, cancelling and rebooking may incur a fee, and it’s also likely that the price...

They’re grey, and are seen near the back in this photo, though the one on the right is only just peaking out:

There a link? EDIT: Never mind, found it. But is this any lower than the day to day Sleeper Plus deals?

I’m not disputing that. You had said that you like the tables to be at the rear because you can get the best view at a rearmost forward-facing table. What I’m saying is that because of the dividers in a SL-II, in those cars you will get the same views with the tables in the front as when they...

That only makes a difference on Superliner Is, though. The Superliner II Sightseer Lounges have two large divider panels in the middle of the car, which make it impossible to see anything out of the windows in the other half of the car. So if you’re on a SL-II with the tables at the back, and...

I don't quite see why passengers awaiting their seating in the diner would belong more in the seats/benches than the tables. Everything I'm seeing shows it as totally random.

Exactly. They don't measure the safety of the different modes of travel through the number of accidents. They measure it in fatalities. These figures don't take into account the amount of times a plane has returned to the airport, that a P42 has pooped out and needed to be towed by a freight...

Hmmm, that's pretty unusual. Auto Train normally uses those former diners with the round booths as Lounges, but will occasionally have that special SSL with only tables subbed in if a car is bad ordered (they chose that layout to handle overflow from the diners, if need be). It is not common at...

I'm pretty sure the Sightseer occasionally used on the Auto Train has nothing but tables on the upper level.

Don't they still sort of do that on the Maple Leaf? I'm pretty sure they serve Coke and other "special" items while it's a VIA train...

So that completely contrasts to what Rasputin has experienced. Sounds like there isn’t even a tendency one way or the other.

Superliners can be oriented in any direction, so it just comes down to whatever is most convenient at the yard. There is no particular preferred orientation for an SSL.

Geez, the NEC has ample capacity from short distance trains. There are a total of four long distance trains that run on the NEC, and one of them is only tri-weekly. Meanwhile the NER, Palmetto, Acela, Carolinian, Pennsy, and Keystones provide dozens and dozens of trains in each direction every...

Well that ain’t good. :help:

I think you missed the joke.