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I googled "Airo" by itself to see more pics, figuring Airo is a unique-enough (if slightly illiterate-looking) spelling. It turns out Airo is a brand of cannabis smoking products (vape pens, cartridges, etc.). :oops: To be fair, it's also an HVAC company, a drone & aerospace company, and a brand...

It apparently doesn't have the 4,000 TQP maximum, as I reached Select for the first time entirely from the 1,000 TQPs per $5,000. In the past, I always ran up against the 4,000 TQP limit, and I almost never buy Amtrak tickets to get TQPs that way. It raises a question for me: my coupons and...

It would be nice if these improvements bought enough capacity to not just run two Amtrak trains west of Harrisburg but three to five trains. I hope in negotiating this, PennDOT/whoever didn't firmly or enforceably commit to adding only one train. As I recall, when the Lincoln Service went up...

It's that time of year again, the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train! CP Holiday Train They run a Canadian train and a U.S. one, and the U.S. train's schedule is at United States I had to laugh a little at one of the FAQ answers: Joy to the world, but only those parts along CP tracks! 🙂

Ditto. A few jobs back, the Capitol Ltd. worked very well for an annual multiday meeting in Washington. Leaving the evening before from downtown Chicago (where my office was, so work-->dinner-->Union Station was easy) got me to DuPont Circle about the same time as the other attendees who awoke...

I don't get it either. The train that goes Chicago-Quincy in the evening is either (1) still in Quincy in the morning to be the morning Quincy-Chicago train, or (2) being wastefully deadheaded to Chicago after arriving at Quincy around 10pm. 🤔 It would make some sense to cut one of the two...

Yep, no weekend service on that line. Pre-covid, I think Metra ran an experimental handful (3 comes to mind) of Saturday round-trips but no Sunday service. (Edited to add: I recalled wrongly that the Saturday service was experimental. Wikipedia says it ran from 2009.)

Not to nitpick, but where (generally) in metropolitan Chicago are you that there's no Metra on the weekends to get downtown in time for the 1:45pm Texas Eagle and get home after 11:05pm from 306? All the lines but Heritage, North Central, and Southwest have weekend service from morning until...

If the end vestibules and doors line up (and the color schemes were matched) I could see those in Amtrak corridor service with the commuter seating at a reduced fare. Only slightly-serious suggestion. :)

Yes, your issues are much worse than mine (which seem to have been fixed, knock on wood)! My sympathies!

I had similar problems, and I was a bit mad. (1) BofA would message me about questionable charges and I could clear up the matter with a few keystrokes on my phone. I only found out FNBO flagged my card when charges etc. were rejected. (2) I called yesterday to get the blockage removed and was...

...or, you can't get theah from heah. :) Apparently, it's not only the Amtrak website that fails to list certain viable connections or transfers. I was looking at the VIA website as a relative asked about traveling from Windsor to Ottawa. After I answered their question, I idly searched for...

Ayn Rand would be spinning in her grave like a generator at the thought of a railcar with that character's name being pulled on a government train.🤣 And anyone who remembers the train in the tunnel chapter of Atlas Shrugged will cringe a little at a car invoking Atlas Shrugged being on the...

I'm curious why the eastbound Capitol Ltd. and Cardinal left Chicago last night (15th) but the eastbound Lake Shore Ltd. didn't. It's the last train out of Chicago as I recall. Was timing bad for the westbound LSL to leave Boston & NYC on the 15th, so there'd be an equipment imbalance?

The wire story says the vote would be after a cool-off period of a few weeks, so no strike now either way. The stories I've seen so far don't say how much the unions got on the time-off issue, which was the remaining sticking-point after the PEB recommended pay increases.

If the dispatchers, who are freight railroad employees outside the NEC and a few commuter lines, either strike or honor other rail workers' strike, Amtrak can't run on the freight lines even if there aren't any freight trains in Amtrak's way.

The BofA fee notice also says (on p. 2): "We will credit your account for the Annual Fee if you close your account by calling us at 1.888.704.9515 (open 24 hours a day) within 30 days of the mailing of the statement on which your Annual Fee is billed." Although that doesn't resolve the...

To follow up on my own post, I called BofA to ask if my BofA AGR card would become a non-AGR card after 10/23 or would close. The first person I spoke with said the former, and that I would still have the $79 annual fee on the new BofA card. Well, I don't mind the now-$99 annual fee for an AGR...

I didn't see anything in FNBO's FAQ (linked earlier) that addressed what BofA is doing with the old credit cards. No reapplying, as you say: FNBO's new cards will be sent in October and won't kick in (once activated) until noon Central on October 23, and the BofA card will work (and presumably...

Fair enough, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. If TC doesn't start moving forward in some way (land acquisition, hiring, at least an updated website :)) in a few months, then the issues were deeper than fighting the eminent-domain legal-political battle.