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I saw them on a previous trip!

Unfortunately I have not made any more progress- The hang up is still in making Amtrak consistently accept requests, as they tend to block you after fetching JSON a few times.

This is what I saw on the Chief consists these past few months, but more recently both the Chief and Zephyr have had baggage cars. For a variety of reasons I have postponed my major CA trip to May.

That seems impossibly low... Yes! Which is why I don't want to bus from LAX to BFD. I would do this except I'm planning to go up the coast on the CS or Surfliner instead. That's what I would have expected given the demand at an airport.

We'd like to explore Yosemite, the Sequoia National Forest, etc. so were planning to drive north to meet the CZ. Initially I was thinking San Luis Obispo but anywhere in that region is fine. For a family of four + luggage it would be a plus if not a must. I am hoping to see the coast from the...

My title is perhaps a little cryptic- I am planning a trip out to the west coast and have been looking at car rental prices. I am thinking of renting a car and driving between San Luis Obispo and Sacramento, but to my dismay the cost of renting an SUV (Enterprise) went from the $400-$500 range...

Wow, I must be tired to make a mistake in my correction. 😂 However: san luis obispo airport code - Google Search I do think it's the legitimate airport code though not what Amtrak uses.

Do you have any idea why the on time performance is worse now than it has been historically? https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/archive/html/historychart.php?train_num=3&station=LAX&date_start=06%2F01%2F2020&date_end=08%2F05%2F2022&sort=d_ar&chartsize=4&smooth=0...

Oh yes! This is unrelated to this trip plan but our 2018 trip out east was set back by our eastbound EB being 8 hours late, resulting in us missing out Capital Limited train. However, we had planned an extra day into the trip so we were still able to pick up our rental car (albeit a day later)...

Agreed. The question of how late I am likely to be dictates whether I should plan on spending the night in Galesburg or not. Even being a couple of hours late would mean getting back to MSP late that night.

Sleeper for SWC and CZ. Coach for the rest (which is probably just the short stint up the coast in the CS, assuming we skip the EB).

40 years, actually! 😂

I'm planning a long Amtrak trip (for a family of four, I am the 20 year old planning the train component of the family trip :)) to California that will probably take place in early December. Earlier is fine but December seems to have lots of low buckets! Note that I live in the MSP area, so the...

I'm probably late to the party but also note that the Cardinal runs Viewliners while the CL runs Superliners.

The tricky bit is you can't get at the JSON API response from the booking page- it returns an HTML response instead. Yes. Once the data is available, the rest becomes simple. Good point. C# is my favorite as most of my work is .NET Blazor. :D For this project thus far I have been using...

I don't want to create any false hope, but I have been playing with the Amtrak reservation API off and on for the past six months and had a breakthrough today. I have written a basic script that will accept two airport codes corresponding to Amtrak stations and a date (it only works for one way...

Second train as in the current westbound train or second train as in a second westbound entirely?

I see that the SWC is garmented to connect with the Missouri River Runner going eastbound in Kansas City. However, the opposite does not appear to be true, presumably because the Runner is scheduled to arrive at 9:40 PM, and the SWC at 10 PM (eastbound is > 1 hour). Is there any way to have a...

I was curious about the history and according to one site this locomotive is now used by LTEX with same number (319). Larry's Truck & Electric

I found some old negatives my grandpa took in 1979 of an old F40. It was taken in the MSP or Michigan area. This was well before my time! It's always fun to find some little pieces of history like that. :)