andersone
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Compromise, Daniel Webster would be proud
EB Mess - 2
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PRae_Train
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So, if I'm booked on EB eastbound on a Monday in late August and it arrives CHI too late for connection to LSL (thus requiring an overnight in Chicago), what are the chances that I'd get a roomette on the LSL that had been booked for someone else who missed connections the next day?
Ryan
Court Jester
Possible, but I wouldn't count on it.
andersone
Conductor
slim and none, doesn't hurt to try,,, but my money is on none
PRae_Train
Service Attendant
How would I try? I would think that if a room is available, they'd give it to me, but is there some way I can improve my chances?
William W.
Lead Service Attendant
As soon as you know that you're going to miss your train, call customer service and ask to be rebooked. When it comes to rebooking due to missed connections, the early bird gets the worm.
PRae_Train
Service Attendant
Thank you. I'll keep that in my Plan B notes.
The other possibility for being reaccomodated in next day sleeper is, if connections are going to be missed the next day due to late trains, then those accomodations are opened up for sale...
tim49424
Engineer
Had a great trip on the Empire Builder #7/27, July 23-25. Great crews, awesome OBS, fantastic SCA and "only" 2 1/2 hours late into PDX but we expected that.
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I think I've asked this before but not gotten a clear answer (I think, since at this point my memory......Ugh.) If you're booked in a roomette, miss the guaranteed connection, and the only sleeper space they have available on the next train is a bedroom, what do they do? I'd hope they'd be willing to negotiate some sort of a deal. Then again, I won;t be surprised if it depends entirely on your negotiating skills. Anyone `walked this tightrope?
Green Maned Lion
Engineer
They'll put you in the bedroom.
D T Nelson
Lead Service Attendant
In my one experience with missing my connection I had paid for a Superliner roomette and was rebooked into a Viewliner handicap bedroom, which was very nice. If you are asking if one might have to pay extra for the upgrade, no, I got the better room for no additional charge.
BUT, there were other people who missed the same connection who had paid for roomettes and wound up in coach on the same train as me. I'm not 100 percent sure how it was that I got a bed and they didn't, but I think it was because I had called customer service the moment they said we were not going to make the connection -- the woman I talked to seemed utterly confused by my request and eventually I said "never mind, I'll wait until I get to Chicago to handle it" but when I got to Chicago I was the one person assigned to a bedroom, so maybe she figured it out after I hung up. Or maybe it was just luck. Anyway, the people who wound up in coach were told they would get the sleeping accommodation charge refunded to them.
People who complained about the downgrade were told "Amtrak guarantees transportation, we do not guarantee a level of accommodation."
tim49424
Engineer
Actually, Room H is less expensive than a roomette.
Green Maned Lion
Engineer
Not when booked without a handicap. Then it's a bedroom, highest bucket.
tim49424
Engineer
Didn't know you could even do that.
William W.
Lead Service Attendant
The H room becomes available to all passengers 14 days before departure, but only if the regular bedrooms are sold out.
tim49424
Engineer
And now that I learned something new.......back to the mess. Does anyone know what happened to 7(1)? There was a service disruption and the last report was from FAR.
andersone
Conductor
as an H room regular it is less expensive than a roomette,, but I have paid my dues to use it,,, and this trip it is She Who Must Be Obeyed who joins me with a malady,, her heel surgery went well, but she is still in one of those real sexy walking casts.
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andersone
Conductor
Have I got the turn numbers right?
8(5) will get turned into 7(7)
working on my Amtrak math here
8(5) will get turned into 7(7)
working on my Amtrak math here
jis
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Warp drive?
8(5) should arrive CHI on the 7th with a little bit of luck. So turn on the 8th to become 7(8).
andersone
Conductor
i knew i was a day off,,, so 8(4) will become 7 (7)
i am trainable
i am trainable
jis
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Yep.
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will
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I boarded in Fargo, so the Saint Paul fiasco was already history. The story I heard was that a freight train engine died and blocked the track 10 miles south of Saint Paul for four hours--during which time the passengers expecting to board at SPUD were on the platform. That was the service disruption; I'm not sure why Dixieland picked up the times to Fargo and then stopped recording them.
Upon leaving Fargo, the train backed through Moorhead to go west on the old Northern Pacific tracks. It stopped on the bridge over the Red River and sat for over a half-hour. There was an announcement that a freight train ahead of us needed to have an engine removed "for reasons unknown."
We passed (or were passed) by several freight trains going the other direction on the Surrey cut-off. I thought the reason BNSF gave for asking Amtrak to send the westbound Empire Builder on the Surrey cut-off was to facilitate one-way traffic on it and the normal (now eastbound only) route. Can anyone comment?
andersone
Conductor
Loaded the Tahoe, headed to Ferryville to see the twin sister of my former mother inlaw
then on to LSE manana to catch the EB.....
to quote Ray Davies
"I am so tired, tired of waiting"
onward and upward
then on to LSE manana to catch the EB.....
to quote Ray Davies
"I am so tired, tired of waiting"
onward and upward
Ispolkom
Engineer
Construction on the route via Grand Forks, the Hillsboro and Devils Lake subs.
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