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While this is true, I might as well display what coach data I do have. I’d take the $64 price with a grain of salt. That came from this (and presumably others like it) search: https://railforless.us/cached/CHI-EMY_1731631550 I have not been able to reproduce it.

Once I finish my rewrite there should be no missing buckets, but I need to rewrite part of my scraping engine to even make this manageable. :p (the core issue is Cloudflare's 1000 subrequest limit per request. There are ways around this but it requires me to rethink my current approach). I'm...

I need to work around a Cloudflare limitation (I can't make more than 1000 subrequests, and fully processing every bucket will take on the order of 10k or 15k requests to amtrak) so for now the data at https://api.railforless.us/buckets is broken.

Odd, if I run a RailForLess search on the auto train I only get $0 prices. I'll need to solve that before including the Auto Train in the bucket calculations. Bug found, pushing fix. :)

Here's what I am thinking right now, in pseudocode: for each station pair: queue amtrak requests, round trip, for the next (11 * 30) = 330 days get amtrak data queue requests to fetch bedrooms and family room prices for each trip response where trainId = input train id...

On the list! This is just the raw API data. Once this is done it will be cleanly formatted on RailForLess, including totals. :) Yes. This is more apparent for lesser used routes. Right now I am drawing from caches searches, but honestly think it would be better to rewrite to fetch data from...

Ok, have a look at: https://api.railforless.us/buckets There are a few gaps in the data but it doesn't look bad for my first attempt.

I'm more focused on the current buckets than historical ones, but I'll keep that in mind! Give me about 15 minutes and I'll send a link to what I'm working on. :) I think this covers the relevant stations and train numbers:

You may be in luck, then. I am planning to fully automate this process and make it a new page on RailForLess, updating nightly. 😀

@niemi24s I am doing some testing with RailForLess data to extract fare buckets: { "trainId": "5", "roomette": [339, 406, 486, 581, 696, 832, 996, 1192], "roometteRail": [277, 290], "bedroom": [815, 979, 1175, 1411, 1694, 2034, 2443, 2933], "bedroomRail": [277, 290]...

At the risk of hijacking the thread, I'd like to know how we can improve the UX on RailForLess for this search! :)

If only I'd given RailForLess a shoutout!

I'm seeing this late, but I was the one interviewed. :D The thumbnail is myself, my brother, and our friend boarding.

What issues did you have with Firefox? All modern browser should work the same. In fact, the UI engineer, Sean, primarily uses Firefox. I am not aware of Google having exclusive access to fare data. There seem to be a number of providers (Expedia, Wanderu, etc.) who get access to it. Correct me...

Hello railfans! This latest iteration of the project is the result of yet another complete redesign of our backend architecture, and a slew of UI tweaks in response to user feedback. We have now finally migrated all of our backend services from Microsoft Azure to Cloudflare. This transition...

I'm guessing we filtered out any bus-only stops when we first pruned the station list. Maybe they can be included but shown with lower priority that normal train stops?

The reason for the bedrooms prompt is that fetching bedrooms and family rooms takes additional time. All other filters, such as filtering by roomettes, can be changed after the search is complete. If you select no on bedrooms/family rooms, you will need to rerun the search to see prices for...

RailForLess V3 will be launching in the next few days and we are looking for testers. If you would like to participate, please use https://dev.railforless.us/ instead of the primary site and report any issues you may have here. The upcoming features include: Much faster search times A complete...

It looks like Google's train integration is still pretty lacking, for now. It only shows a single train that corresponds to your initial search. Maybe in the future Railforless can pull data from a public API if Amtrak provides one...

I wasn't originally going to ride on day 1, but it occurred to me that i can ride MSP - LSE and back on the 21st and only need about 6 hours of vacation. Maybe I will see some of you there? :D