Track number for Silver Star 91 at Penn

[dande]

Does the star leave southbound from any certain track at Penn?how far in advance do they post track numbers on the board?

 

[pennyk]

If you are in a sleeper, you can wait for the train in the Club Acela lounge and you will be escorted to the train before general boarding. The amount of time before departure varies. I am guessing early boarding is somewhere between 20 - 40 minutes before departure.

 

[dande]

Thanks did not know that

 

[pennyk]

When you enter the lounge (located near the 8th Avenue and 31st corner of Penn Station), you will be asked to show your ticket. There are snacks and clean restrooms in the lounge. When it is time to board, the lounge attendant will announce that something like "passengers for train 91 Silver Star please gather outside the front doors and wait for your escort to the train."

 

[bratkinson]

When I took the Star from NYP about a month ago, once the track number was announced in the Club Acela, I used that as my que to get a nice grinder (dinner + breakfast) and a couple of bottles of diet coke with screw on lids and STILL get to the gate before it was showing on the track number/status display board. Since I had a sleeper ticket, they let me go down the escalator right away.

I've been through NYP more than enough times and dined at or from various establishments to decide which ones I like and which ones will never see me again. It varies from hamburgers, pizza, or grinders, largely based on what I feel like, how much time I have between trains, and, of course, am I going on an overnight train with downgraded or no dining car.

 

[dande]

Thanks. Any recommendations bof s place to get a grinder near club scrl

 

[dande]

Do you only get water on the silver Star no soda,?

 

[pennyk]

Do you only get water on the silver Star no soda,?

water will be provided at no charge. If you want soda, you will have to purchase in the cafe car, for now.

 

[bratkinson]

Thanks. Any recommendations bof s place to get a grinder near club scrl

There's two places I've liked the grinders at NYP. Both are along the wall alongside where Empire Service passengers form a line essentially in the middle of a wide hallway. I think they're just past the Amtrak Police 'station'. Coming out of the Club Acela, turn right and keep on walking past the gates & stairs to tracks 1-6. About the 3rd place on the right (the coach passenger lounge and Empire Service passenger 'line' is on your left) has premade grinders in a deli-style glass-front case along the back of the store. The next place makes grinders to order and the counter is on the left side of the U-shaped customer area. They both have bottled soda available. I've bought food and soda at both places multiple times this year.

As for the grinder shops on the LIRR level, I'm less than happy with what I got there. On the LIRR level, I prefer Rose Pizza and Shake Shack, both have dine-in seating which I use.

 

[Bex]

Just FYI, in NY we call them heroes.

Occasionally a sub if you're from NJ.

 

[pennyk]

Just FYI, in NY we call them heroes.

Occasionally a sub if you're from NJ.

thanks. I was wondering what he was talking about. In Florida, we call them subs or possibly heroes.

 

[Qapla]

Depends on who you ask ... but they all agree, it is a sandwich

Hoagie: More strongly associated with Italian-American culture, used mostly to refer to sandwiches containing cold cuts such as ham, salami, turkey, etc.

Grinder: it's used more often to describe a spherical sandwich that is toasted and/or contains hot ingredients such as meatballs, sliced chicken, etc.

Sub: "Sub" is pretty much ubiquitous nationwide (thanks, perhaps, to Subway), though it seems the vaguest of the three terms. There are hot subs and cold subs, subs with cold cuts (turkey), subs with hot meats (chicken parmesan), subs that are short, subs that are long.

A submarine sandwich, also known as a sub, hoagie, hero, or grinder, is a type of sandwich consisting of a length of bread or roll split lengthwise and filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, vegetables, and condiments. The sandwich has no standardized name, with over a dozen variations used around the world.
The terms submarine and sub are widespread and not assignable to any certain region, though many of the localized terms are clustered in the northeastern United States.

 

[Bex]

I think it's pretty regional:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_sandwich

But this is really off-topic, so apologies.