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Might it be doable to have a bilevel layout with single-level beds (no upper bunk, and a lower ceiling height) on one level, double-level beds (and a higher ceiling height) on the other level? This would add a useful accommodation type: single-bed rooms for single travelers, plus the usual...

A few years ago when I last traveled there, baggage check at Seattle was free for sleeper passengers, while coach passengers were charged the per-bag fee.

Pity their vision doesn't extend to a connection with the SW Chief. :(

It can't possibly take significantly more time to take a train from Macon to Atlanta than it does to get through security at the airport, get the flight boarded and off the ground, and then get to Atlanta. In fact, it almost certainly is more time-efficient as well as less expensive to take the...

And so should Amtrak. At a lower cost, and vastly better fuel efficiency than many of the routes subsidized by EAS.

From an email sent to me yesterday, about my AGR Mastercard: "As a result of system updates, various cardholder benefits may be delayed from April 18 until April 28, including the posting of Amtrak Guest Rewards® points earned with your credit card and point rebates from Amtrak® reward travel...

Any system where the door locks with the key left behind in the room is going to have the SCA up all night opening doors for sleepy passengers who walk down the hall to the bathroom without their key. Not a good scenario.

I don't even want to think about what a mess PIN locks would have been when I was traveling with my elderly father, whose memory was fading. It's not hard to imagine a good many folks locking themselves out of their own rooms if remembering a PIN is required.

The comments include a lot more than reminiscences. Lots of support for the value of a national rail system, both economically and as a shared experience in rancorous times.

Sometimes it is. A clever librarian once arranged an (unclassified) interlibrary loan for me from the CIA's library in Langley. :cool:

Maximizing revenues involves multiple factors, some of them conflicting: You don't want short-haul passengers to block out so many long-haul passengers that it's "too" costly--but you also don't want to permanently discourage short-haul passengers. You also shouldn't price sleepers so high as to...

Atmosphere and history. It's touted at "America's oldest, continuously operated bar." See more here.

And when the projected travel boom is over, the folks who can afford sky-high pricing will move on to something else. And everyone else, including long-time Amtrak customers, will have moved on during the price spike and won't come back. Short-term greed can indeed result in long-term loss that...

Amen. If Amtrak wants to create a sky-high-priced, soak-the-rich class of sleeper service, that needs to be something ADDITIONAL to the existing classes of service. Passengers who aren't filthy rich still need a lie-flat sleeping option that's priced higher than coach but not out of reach to...

Call AGR and ask to have your wife added to your ticket. They'll charge you points for her "open sleeper" fare; you've already paid for yourself and the roomette. (I've done this before, IIRC, as recently as last fall.) Edit to add: I think Amtrak's currently running a...

I wouldn't say "NEVER," but it's been rare in my experience. And that "like" I gave your post doesn't apply to its last sentence, which I think is uncalled for.

Do the folks who write this stuff ever actually see the trains, or only the text written years ago already, when "upgraded bedding" was promised to be coming soon?

North Carolina is more purple than red.

I'd say either Charlottesville (for the reasons RebelRider cited--it's very walkable and pleasant, with a wide variety of good food options) or Alexandria. The stop in Alexandria is at King Street in Old Town. a very pleasant walk to the river through an old residential district with a variety...

Look at the title of this thread and it all makes sense: "Republican coalition against Amtrak Mobile service." They see that Democrats support it, so they must oppose it. That's about as much "reasoning" as Republican politicians have needed to exercise in recent years, especially at the...