New York to San Fran, or the other way around?

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Hi, welcome fellow Pennsylvanian. I don't believe 10 ride tickets work like that. They are intended for commuters on shorter, frequent corridor rides. If you are looking to ride long distance you would need to make your itinerary and make individual reservations with your stops in mind. An option is to buy a USA Rail Pass ($500) which does allow stopovers, yet you still would need reservatons for each segment. Sorry, they don't make it easy.

It used to be a lot easier back when a multi-ride was a workaround to get on an otherwise fully booked train. And I think on some routes they allowed them to be used for multiple passengers as long as the passholder was one of them. Five passengers might go round-trip with a single 10-ride pass.