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No, no joy MSP-SAN, even though there's a 10:10 p.m. Surfliner that would connect with a Coast Starlight arriving at 9 p.m.

I think that you would lose that bet. San Diego-Portland-St. Paul (a perfectly legitimate routing) wasn't restored, for instance.

I'd imagine that you'd have to do something impressive for the feds to press charges. Most Assistant U.S. Attorneys have bigger fish to fry than a drunk 'n' disorderly charge. Back to the original post, I've been told a couple of times by on-board staff that the preferred station to unload...

Oh, that's certainly true, though I one informant did describe a burning smell coming from the sleeping car's brakes. Perhaps a brake line decoupled in the incident and dumped the air. From my personal experience, in a bedroom upper bunk you can wake up thinking that you've flown through the...

Note, though, that while travel to Churchill is discounted, you have to pay full fare if you want to leave there.

I was on #8(23) from Minot to St. Paul. I think that the Minot departure at 3:30 am was the worst depature I've ever had in 34 years. I've been on later Empire Builders, but for me 3-4 am is pretty much the most inconvenient time -- too late to stay up and too early to get up for. The...

This, in my experience.

This site has moderators who close and merge threads and even delete postings. If I don't like a post I report it to the moderators, and let them take care of it (or not). If I didn't like the moderation policy here, I'd go to a site with a different policy (Ryan suggests one). I'd never...

True that, though I prefer Lagavulin neat. I sanitize my ice cubes with gin.

This is the thing. I can talk big about refusing a search, but I don't even have enough hair left for flowing locks, and I can bloviate away, knowing that no DEA agent will ever approach me. The last time I took a bus across the Canadian border the border agent could not get rid of me and Mrs...

I doubt it. Between invading Ukraine, shooting down that Malaysian jet, murdering internal political opponents, and dealing with the collapse of oil prices, the Putin regime has been busy.

Four hours is generally my limit on a bus. Denver to Billings? I'd drive that again in a heartbeat. It would give me a chance to stop in Thermopolis to see the Archaeopteryx specimen they have, and then also stop over in Cody to spend some time at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Wide...

Great video!

Yes, a suitcase on the Blue Line in rush hour in is a pain. Sitting stuck in traffic in a taxi is also a pain. A slower, more expensive pain, I think. YMMV, of course, but at rush hour I'm always going to take the Blue Line to O'Hare over a taxi.

I remember a David Morgan article where he mentioned that he tended to take the Broadway Limited when traveling to New York because he was usually traveling from Milwaukee on a Milwaukee Road train. Since both Milwaukee Road and the Pennsylvania Railroad used Chicago Union Station, this allowed...

It's valid starting April 9. I think that before that there's a temporary, earlier departure time for the Sunset Limited, which breaks the connection with the Coast Starlight. Logic? From Amtrak? I'll guess that in this case it spits out the routes that it has between the two cities. Why...

Lots of itineraries that start or end on the Empire Builder went away when they broke the connections at both ends last year, and haven't come back.

The problem is that St. Paul to Flagstaff is not a published route, so according to the Rules as Written you can't book a trip between the two cities as one AGR redemption. I'm impressed that you had two agents who were willing to break the rules to help you. The problem is that neither...

Jtoddander is right. I have earned two bonuses on both the Chase Sapphire Preferred and the Chase Freedom cards. Honest. My rule of thumb is to not apply for two years after I've cancelled the card before applying for it again. Chase has apparently forgotten about me by then. This isn't...

Studies are where initiatives go to die. The sponsoring legislator gets to tell his constituents that he's done something (gotten the study), and in the end, nothing happens. Twas ever thus.