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Day 7 Bonus content Buffalo Central Terminal from Amtrak 64.

I doubt there would be absolutely immediate reassignment. I am sure a lot of us will be on the lookout for some consist additions in the coming months. Still hoping for the badly needed second Seattle coach for the Builder.

Will be starting a new thread for the return, first post probably tomorrow. On 49 as I write this.

Straight points are pretty easy. They are worth about $0.0267/point. The cash plus points is significantly poorer and appears to be a sliding scale of some sort. For me, the points are more than worth it. I have the AGR card and put all my household expenses on it, do points rack up pretty...

Chicago to Everett, WA, 2 stops short of Seattle. In a roomette. It is a two night trip, leaves Chicago 3:05 pm, arrives Seattle 11:29 am/Portland 11:17 am second day.

I am a pretty regular rider on the Builder, it is one of my "home" trains since I catch it at Everett, 20 minutes from my house. In fact, I will be connecting to 7 tomorrow off today's 49.

They do not "need" you to do that. I book sleepers regularly and never book sleepers online because I am picky about roomette location. I call, check which room was assigned and ask for a change if not a preferred one. Only after the room assignment is settled to my satisfaction do I finalize...

Day 7 So far, everything had gone smoothly on the rails. That would end today. Got up bright and early, and headed back to Toronto Union at about 7:15 for the 8:20 Maple Leaf. They changed up the document check procedure at Toronto again. This year they just come by everyone sitting in the...

Day 6 Woke up before Parry Sound and we were more or less on time. Today is another "brunch" day. "Brunch" service starting at 9:30. Last seatings at 11:00 because we are running early with am early arrival into Toronto. Running later they'd keep serving until 1. Grabbed my shower and went...

Day 5 Woke up in Sioux Lookout and we were on time. Went to breakfast, then back to my room and then my shower, taking advantage of the fact that I already had the towel in my possession. No snow up in the Canadian Shield of Northern Ontario this year. The lakes were largely ice free, though...

Day 4 Twenty minutes late out of Edmonton, over an hour early into Saskatoon and out on time. Not a lot pictures today, spent most of the day hanging out in the Skyline and the Park. Oddly, even with only 3 rows available in the Park dome for Sleeper Plus, it is much less populated than the...

They haven't published the diner menus online for several years. They still serve a different menu each day, and they still offer Prime Rib for dinner coming into Winnipeg. You can buy liquor in the Skylines as long as they are staffed. Don't know about sodas, don't drink soda. They de-staffed...

It is clear that the implementation of points and cash is pretty much an unmitigated disaster. You cannot book points and cash with an agent. Period. It can only be booked online. In the case of a disruption, it is very difficult to impossible to proactively adjust the itinerary with an agent...

They haven't been allocating inventory into lower buckets at inventory release 11 months out for many, many years now. They abandoned that practice a long time ago, and the old "buy cheaply at 11 months out" advice is woefully outdated and pretty much flat wrong for sleepers. The pattern I've...

🤣🤣🤣 Amtrak consistent? 🤣🤣🤣 Tell us another.

If they don't reverse the car line numbering for the summer consist you will be at least 6 cars from the Park in the summer consist, two Prestige Chateaus, diner, Skyline, 10 sleeper, 11 sleeper. If they do the car line numbering reversal for summer as has happened the last few years, you will...

I guess they need their juice, cookie and a nap.

Like most of the name trains of the day, the Super Chief was a a train designed for and marketed to the business travel market. The only streamliner era name train specifically designed for the leisure travel market was the California Zephyr. By the late 1950s the expense account traveler was...

The freight trains were getting through the San Clemente slide zone, though very slowly, while the Surfliners and Metrolink Oceanside trains were suspended.

It'll depend on when in the spring, because the car line numbering scheme changes between the summer and winter consists the last few years. Winter consist the last few years the car line numbers ascended back to front, as seen here on my train. The 10 car is closest to the Park Summer consist...