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  1. NorthShore

    Transit App adds charge

    So this is what I get for finally uograding my app?
  2. NorthShore

    Transit App adds charge

    I've noticed that the popular "Transit" app is set to start charging 5 bucks a month or 25 annually for "Royale" service. In Chicago, I've noticed that this means offering arrival times for the closest cross streets complimentary, maybe a nearby L (maybe not, depending where you are).....and...
  3. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    That said, it should probably be noted that one can (eventually) lose all your AGR points for lack of "activity." Use of the credit card ensures constant activity to the connected AGR account. If one fails to earn or spend points within (two years, is it?) by other activities such as...
  4. NorthShore

    Engineer question

    Such signs are common on CTA platforms.
  5. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    Living in the Midwest, it's actually nice to have something based upon Central Time (rather than the usual Eastern or sometimes Western) for once. Now, if they really wanted to confuse everyone they could have used Mountain Time in Arizona!
  6. NorthShore

    Engineer question

    Regarding Metra, numerous platforms on the system (particularly at older/legacy stations or along elevated embankments where platform lengths might be limited by what fits in between viaducts at intersecting streets) can not accommodate the entire length of a longer train. It's important...
  7. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    Somehow, I must have missed that notice. (I knew the availability was going away, but presumed on the 23rd.) Since I did access the account during business hours on that date, but couldn't later that evening, I suppose there was an unclear cutoff time, too. Not the greatest in coordination...
  8. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    So...this is weird. My monthly closing date was earlier this week. It was my intention to pay off the balance before the transfer, which I did...but with some challenge of choosing a payment date. I decided, a couple of days later, that I actually wanted to use the Amtrak BOA card to add a...
  9. NorthShore

    Chicago Union Station discussion

    I think the challenge for Metra with Lolla is tons of teenagers. Though taking the train from other festivals, even just after a major Ravinia concert, can be pretty crazy, too.
  10. NorthShore

    CTA scheduling

    I've been noting this as the problem and solution for over a year, now. https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/10/18/23411303/cta-ghost-buses-trains-rescheduling-commuters-letters
  11. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    I don't think I've ever gotten more than one point for Ventra in Chicago.
  12. NorthShore

    RPA statement on Amtrak’s handling of major Wolverine delay

    It seems that the crux of the matter is that human passengers were viewed, simply, as delayed "freight." The human element was entirely ignored by both Amtrak and the railroad companies over whose roads this coupled train(s) traveled. Frankly, if executives were fired (as they should well be)...
  13. NorthShore

    CTA Celebrates 75

    With historic bus and train rides: https://www.transitchicago.com/75th/#daleyplaza
  14. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    Maybe this bodes well for high speed rail.
  15. NorthShore

    CPAP in a superliner roomette

    Not a CPAP, but a friend with a ventilator rode in a handicapped sleeper room a couple of years ago. I'm not sure how they set it up, exactly. It's possible it stayed attached to her wheelchair.
  16. NorthShore

    The effect of the potential rail strike on Amtrak

    I was wondering if this would end up as the case, especially considering that Metra operates the service, itself, on these lines.
  17. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    BOA offers a credit check feature, with updated FICO scores, online with one's account. Will FNBO offer something similar?
  18. NorthShore

    AGR Credit Card change (October 2022)

    Looks like my address is not eligible for informed delivery. I miss my old mailman.
  19. NorthShore

    AAPRCO in Chicago

    As one, late, railfan friend once commented (as we watched a slide show of the early Amtrak days), "EVERY trip was a fantrip!"
  20. NorthShore

    AAPRCO in Chicago

    Around 6:30, the special rolls by:
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