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Bunk measurements like these. . . . . .were once available on the Amtrak website, but I don't remember where and can't find them now. Could it be that Amtrak IT has gotten rid of this sort of trivia?

The difference is not that great. Google Maps says CBS is only 1h 21m longer and 75 miles farther (17% longer and 21% farther) than MSP. The $140 savings in parking fees, the probable 300 yard savings in the walk to the train, the lack of potential homeless encounters, doing all that when the...

Unless you have some special reason for boarding the Empire Builder that late in the day in St. Paul, I'd strongly recommend getting on in the nice farming town of Columbus WI (CBS) instead. It's an unstaffed station now, but does offer checked baggage service according to this: Columbus, WI...

At about 1:15 of this video you'll be able to see the effects of a sun kink as the engineer saw it plus how the locomotive reacted when hitting it: Had never seen one like this before. In addition, most of the sun kink images I've seen are taken with a telephoto lens to emphasize the...

Easiest way to find smoke stops for any train is view their timetables available here: Amtrak + VIA Rail Timetables | Rail Passengers Association | Washington, DC

When checking the hours of these agencies, be sure to scroll the calendar to include your travel date. The currently displayed hours are usually for the coming week and these may be different from when you intend to turn in the car. Some agencies also offer something called after hours turn...

If you think you'll able to drop off your rental car and get to EMY in time to catch the 9:10am Zephyr that same day - lotsa luck. Spent about 30 minutes on the results of a Google search for Car Rental Emeryville CA and the only possibilities found were Enterprise or Hertz at the Oakland...

Uh,. . .er,. . .hmmm. . .well no, as a matter of fact. But when silly stuff like this is found it's easily explained by blaming a square electron getting hung up in one of Arrows P-N junctions. :rolleyes:

FWIW, exceedingly rare low bucket Family Rooms on the East-bound SWC were just noticed ($924) for departure on 2, 14, 21 and 23 March 2023.

Until an updated chart is posted, please , , , • add estimated square brackets to the rail fare entries ( > ) for the CONO and CL and • change the CZ's high bucket B from $3321 to $3221 There are a few other errors, but they're too small to bother with here.

Well, I'll be dipped in . . . . Did the same thing for travel starting 17 Nov and found for a Roomette or Bedroom: • SAC to PDX is $424 or $891, while the shorter . . . • SAC to EUG is $560 or $1170 So with no checked bags and wanting to go from SAC to just EUG in a Roomette or Bedroom, by...

Does this occur using the same travel start dates? Or is it simply the case of the cheaper fare being offered on a different travel date where a lower bucket is being offered?

An updated fare bucket chart was just posted here. . .Long Distance Train Coach & Sleeper Fares (Buckets). . .and is based on the previously mentioned sleeper fare increases. The only Coach fare posted is the rail fare and those for two trains (LSL to BOS and AT) are marked as estimates as...

Here's the most recent bucket chart for LD trains. • Due to uncertainty in Coach fares, only the rail fare (the additional fee charged when an additional adult is booked into a sleeper) is shown, and there's even some uncertainty in those as denoted by the [brackets]. The rail fare is found...

One way of getting a feel for what you're getting for your $ is to calculate the cost of travel per hour of travel. F'rinstance, I just picked the random date of 17 April to compare a Roomette with flying for two people (each with one checked bag) from CHI to SEA. • EB worked out to $23.66...

If you select a map style of max speed here. . . OpenRailwayMap . . .they'll be displayed but you'll have to get the lengths from the milepost data available here . . .https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/GISFRASafety/ . . .or use the distance scale at the lower left corner of the map in the first link...

Betcha 5¢ they'd do it just for you.

Same thing happened to me about 30 minutes ago. Had to call to get the correct 2 for 1 fare. Amtrak IT strikes again, and again, and . . . . (yawn)

The sneaky part in this sale is you get NO savings if you book online using the usual web page at Amtrak Tickets, Schedules and Train Routes You get the savings online ONLY by using the amended URL at Roomette Free Companion Flash Sale | Amtrak (or by booking through an agent). So if the...

And if you could find a low bucket Roomette on the Builder ($618 for one adult) the savings would be about 35% :) But I'm puzzled by the variability of this "rail fare" amount on the SL and the Card/LSL which seem to have 2 or 3 different values on the dates I've looked at. This begs further...