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I am hoping to make good progress on this next week. I will have the entire house to myself for the whole week, so all but one of my evenings is open. It might be helpful to have one or two willing test candidates to make sure it is working correctly. ;)

No, because: Amtrak refuses requests that lack cookies, and I have not found a way of generating them, hence needing a legitimate Amtrak tab Repeated attempts are likely linked to IP as well as cookies. Maybe - I have seen his code, though, and our tech stacks are very different.

I don't want to get hopes up prematurely but I have had much more success hitting the API directly. I'm able to return 30 days of trains in about 5 seconds for short routes in my testing. Some very busy routes take much longer (30+ seconds) due to the sheer number of options. This is through...

I must be missing something because I thought the Venture coaches were pretty nice?

My preference is Intercity Rail Map over the official Amtrak tracker.

I am doing exactly this on Thursday, actually! GBB > LA on the Chief, then LA > SLO on the Starlight. That last part is important as the Surfliner runs LA > SLO later in the day and is my backup if the Chief is late and I miss the connection with the Starlight. As I am renting a car anyway and...

Ok, thanks, I wasn't certain if it was the part that extended north of LA.

Does this affect the Coast Starlight as well?

I will have four nights on Amtrak over the next two weeks (two on the SWC, two on the CZ) and remember receiving a nice bag with soap and shampoo in my roomette years ago. However, I have seen that some of the refurbished sleepers now have dispensers in the showers. Either way, I want to double...

I was waiting to board 7/27 at the time and we weren't given much info inside. I forget what train they were boarding at the time (possibly the Eaglette?) but they told everyone to go back to their seats in the Great Hall and wait. It's likely unrelated, but there was a switch issue preventing...

As someone who is riding from MSP to CHI in a couple of weeks I would much prefer the predictable schedule above to the possibility of a late 8. At least in my case, the Metra train I will be connecting with (BNSF line) runs until after midnight. I will miss the SSL and it might prompt me to...

Thank you both! I will go with the lowest fare, then.

I will be riding the Builder from MSP to CHI and back at the end of the month accompanying a family member. From the website, it seems that the Seattle section is fuller on average than the Portland section. It looks like some trains have 2 Portland coaches vs 1 Seattle coach, so it would be...

Ah right, that's what it was called. I had it on both the LSL and Capitol Limited in August of 2018.

Are eastern trains likely to return to traditional dining or is the best we can hope for the pre-COVID boxed meals? To be fair, those boxed meals were pretty tasty in their own right.

Also, if we are boarding the SWC at Galeburg, will we still get dinner?

I'm finally back to the trip planning- unfortunately I missed out on the SWC low bucket. There was a single room left at $764 instead of the low $621, but Amtrak forced me to book both at the next higher bucket of $897. I guess I could have split the ticket, though. They gave me two rooms on...

Even the points from the purchase (minus the 2x for the AGR card) should be enough to get us over the edge, and if not we can always buy points to make up the difference. Consequences of my tired brain back in August. :) Regarding your first point, I was hoping for the 2:57 Surfliner if we...

I am reviving this thread... Car rentals are looking expensive due to picking up the car in SLO and dropping it off in SAC. Aside from that, everything is coming together. We will be buying tickets for the trip out soon, which will give us enough points to purchase the return trip entirely for...

I am reviving this thread as the trip it relates to has been pushed back a year. :) I am currently trying to find cheap SWC and CZ buckets in early May 2023. The former is easy to find, but I can't find a single day where the CZ is less than $1000, either direction (early-mid May). I am...