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“If we could add more cars, we would,” Magliari said. 🤣🤣🤣

Last night I drove over to the station to watch 79 arrive into CLT. Maybe 20 or 25 passengers were on board.

AmHound

An opportunity for NC to buy lines in question or negotiate future preferential treatment in the future. I was in FLO all last week on business. My hotel was close to the station. At one point I heard chatter on my scanner about buses being sourced to take passengers as far south as JAX.

I ride the Carolinian from Charlotte to New York with such regularity, that from late spring through summer, a 10 car consist could be probably justified at times. I ride that train always in business class, and at times they could have probably sold out two business class cars if the equipment...

Yes, I know. Doesn't make a lot of sense why they keep adding them to my account.

I got 2x. No complaints here though. I'm flush with points, a little over 200k at the moment. I've used my Amtrak cards for a lot of non-Amtrak spend this year. I hit Select Executive from the spend alone. Along the way this year, Amtrak has been loading my account up with lounge passes. Almost...

AmHound. Government takeover of Greyhound would make for interesting congressional debates. Let’s get ready to rumble……. Then somebody would have to start the “National Bus Passengers Association” lobbying group. Lol.

And people continue to pay those prices. No different than those who spend thousands at Disney on a single visit, and don't blink an eye doing it. There are three kinds of people............those that can, those that can't, and those that won't regardless.

On time performance certainly has improved. 20 has been hitting my hometown of CLT, pretty much on time all week. Amazing what can happen sometimes when you exercise your lawful rights. This is starting to make me wanna go back to booking roomettes, instead of business class on the Carolinian.

Certainly Amtrak could have handled this better. The compensation on their part is lacking no doubt. Situations like this remind me however, why it is I purchase robust travel insurance to at least make me financially whole, or close to it when meltdowns happen. It looks like there was...

When are you working the trains again? I might try to oblige you. lol

I think it's safe to say NCDOT will try to make these golf specials a regular thing.

If I can fry up a sunny side egg, in the back of a motor home, winding it's way through the Rocky Mountains, surely Amtrak can train some chefs sooner than 2025 to cook on a rolling train.

I heard about this yesterday. Hopefully this will help further generate interest from people along the route beyond a one off event. Too bad we can't have a train running between Pinehurst and Wilmington those days as well.

Yeah I don't recall when the last I've seen clean windows on the Crescent or the Carolinian, when I depart Charlotte.

I would hope Amtrak doesn’t have all its wire repair assets on the Keystone. Then again, this is Amtrak we are talking about. 🤪 I suspect maybe Wilmington has equipment staged there. Hopefully someone more in the know will have an answer.

They need to hire / train more chefs.

I told my wife last night about the Crescent getting it's dinner back. She was excited until I told her the latest scheme from Amtrak. Roomette prices from CLT to NYP or NOL and back have gone too high to justify tolerating flex dining. Neiman Marcus pricing for Dollar General food. As far as...

It's a step in the right direction. However............... I won't be happy until real traditional dining returns.