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1. I said a few rooms across a period of time, which indicates that pricing is optimized. I also said that if any significant number of rooms go out empty it represents a failure of yield management and things need to be adjusted. Implicitly that means lowering prices to overcome price...

Well, I think fairly few people in a location served by good corridor service would jump to an LD sleeper as their first rail experience. They'd take a corridor train, then maybe think "that was good, why not a longer trip?". If they encountered high sleeper prices, I doubt it would dissuade...

Hmm, that's flat out weird. Not the lights, though, the lights probably do not mean much, it was still probably deadheading. Maybe they were just left on or for crew convienence. Where it's going is the weird part. The Floridian is going to use Amfleet IIs and the first 40(10) is likely to...

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Well, that and getting mothballed cars back on the road, as @Amtrakfflyer points out.

No, they could give it away if they wanted to forgo revenue. I don’t think they want to, though. In a market economy a scarce commodity is rationed by price, which is what they're doing. "Supress ridership". Forgive me, but I actually laughed out loud at that. I didn't use the LOL or the...

The only way to lower sleeper fares is to increase inventory. They are not a good value proposition and no one really says that they are. Other travel modes, cruises and First Class air, present better, sometimes much better, value propositions, but that is immaterial. The prices are due to...

There is an interesting Visitor's Center in Temple Square that has recreations of some of the important rooms in the interior of the temple (I got the distinct impression the interior is broken up into a bunch of rooms, it doesn't seem to be one big interior space like a cathedral). The...

Ohio would have to fund (or get a grant) for the portion across northern Indiana. Indiana almost certainly would not kick anything in. The "3C" solves the potential political problem of state funds being spent for service in a different state. Perhaps after Ohio gets the service and likes it...

Or, more likely, cancel and get a refund if there is any reasonable notice.

I just ran February and March 2025 CHI-NYP on railsforless.us and got a consistent $93 on the LSL and Card and $162 for Floridian/NER in coach on all dates. I ran NYP-CHI and got the same fare jump to $219 on February 3rd, but it stayed at $219 for the entire remainder of February and all of...

Served liquor, too.

PS, if you are planning for this Thanksgiving it is really late to be making sleeper reservations. There may not be much choice of rooms to keep everything in the same car and fares by now are likely to be high(ish) bucket.

Size of the kids will decide whether or not a Family Room is appropriate. The "child berths" are child-sized. I don't think they'd comfortably fit over a kid over age 8-10. If you want to have a say in roomette/bedroom location, call for a reservation and tell the agent that is what you want...

No, they do not overbook. Especially in BC.

Or can't. As a solo traveler I am pretty much paying for two meals and getting one. Not that I want another, but still... I do not normally eat three meals a day. I do on Amtrak, though, on principle. On a really late eastbound Empire Builder at Everett (mudslide issues between Seattle and...

I agree with all of that. The system migrations I've been involved with were necessary and justified from both a business need and a technical standpoint. Risk was mitigated to the extent possible within financial, technical and time constraints. All were successful, though some had more...

Funny, they are not consistent at all. I've crossed by bus both ways at Pacific Highway (WA/BC) and Niagara Falls (NY/ON). At both crossings both US CBP and CBSA want everything off the bus and passengers have to lug all their stuff off. Also, weirdly, at Niagara Falls Canada x-rayed your...

August is just a few hours ago on Amtrak time.

Or VIA, they recently replaced their core reservations system with a modern one, though they also call the new one ReserVIA. It was very late and at one point they pulled an already late implementation less than 60 days before the publicly announced implementation date. But they finally got it...