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Perfect, thank you. Looks like it's speed restrictions due to trackwork.

Thank you for the clarification. Do you have a link to that Facebook group? The several “Vermonter” pages I looked at were about Vermont residents or were sparsely used. Are these the same repairs that they were working on a few months ago? They were busing people from Springfield.

The Vermonter South Bound (departing St. Albans and going towards Washington, DC) has been delayed for roughly an hour every day for the past week. I'm assuming it's due to the freight strike north of New Haven. Can anyone provide more detail on how long we expect the delays to occur? Is the...

Thank you for this detailed response and your relevant anecdotes. It might be the most "engineering" type answer I've seen and I think your assessment is accurate. The app/website issue became apparent when some of my non-stop trips became connecting trips. So instead of one ticket, I now...

I'm having issues with Amtrak displaying all of my trips (app and website). I was wondering if it was due to the amount of tickets I have purchased (80+) going out 11 months.

Unfortunately, the United partnership doesn't exist anymore. I've used the Moynihan lounge many times since pandemic and the sitting area is very nice. However, the food (very little variety) has been the same for 12 months and the alcohol is NYC prices, not discount airport lounge prices. I...

I think that's what I'm questioning: What is Select Plus or Select Exec worth? If I'm 1,000 away from Plus, would I want to do $5k credit card spend or ride First on Acela to hit it? This is in addition to normal commutes and travel. I thought we only had until year end to hit a tier? I know...

Thanks for the detail. It seems like you were able to really work that angle. You must have been using a spreadsheet for all those variations! I'm trying think of what Select Plus is actually worth in terms of TQP runs. For example, if I'm at 9,000 TQPs organically (just riding the train like...

Were the NHV-WAS actual trips or did you do the runs only for the TQPs? I don't understand why AGR or Amtrak is so unresponsive to emails. However, I'm glad you got 1000 TQPs but it sounds like they owe you more.

How many points did you need to get to Select (Plus)? I'm wondering how you figured the math so that the effort was worth getting the status.

That is so awesome that riders could figure out a loophole like that!

PHL to Paoli for $6? Wow, that would have been a great method. Would you just hop on and go back and forth, round trip, a few times?

The bonus applies to both TQPs and points. Those are different than tier bonuses (for being Select, etc.). Those now only apply to points. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amtrak-guest-rewards/2085282-free-tqp-ride-over.html

Good point on the Acela 50%. I read somewhere in FlyerTalk that AGR fixed the status TQP bonuses we were getting in June.

High dollar tickets on First Class would be the fastest way, then?

Yes, the promos definitely helped last year.

I'll be close to keeping Select Plus this year. Aside from the Bank of America credit card spend ($5,000 for 1,000 TQPs), are there any other ways to add TQPs? There are mattress runs and mileage runs for keeping hotel or airline status. I was wondering if anyone has done a train run? The...

I'm logged in there every time. I purchased a ticket via app and two via website last night. The app ticket shows on the app but not on the website. And vice versa. For some reason the app and website are not syncing the trips to each other. I've emailed Amtrak twice but no response.

I'm curious about the app. Do you think the reservations that I manually add to the app are stored locally on the phone? So if I were to clear the data or cache they would disappear? I would do a test run but I've added 20+ trips manually and don't want to start over if it all gets deleted.

I think I have it sorted pretty well on my end (separate folder, printed the tickets out) but it would be nice to have it populate to my Google/Apple calendar.