Corgi DadGot upgraded to business class on Northeast Regional... I bid $66 and won LMAO
Wonder how it is compared with Acela
Andreas Wiedenhoff#Wilmington, DE 🇺🇸 station earlier today. #Amtrak #Acela and #NortheastRegional services stopping here.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐I also have some hopes that perhaps when the new #Siemens #AmtrakAiro rolling stock shows up (scheduled for 2026), the issues with AC power and WiFi on my route will be mitigated, since it will be all new hardware.
Of course, the first new #trains will likely go to the #NortheastRegional, but hopefully the #Vermonter and #EthanAllenExpress won't lag too far behind.
And hopefully, the next administration will not tamper with the project. #travel
Jeremy Fountain 🏳️🌈
Boxcarsgood evening tooters. I'm rolling down the east coast on #Amtrak 's night owl #northeastregional. co2 level in this quiet car is 1231ppm which is borderline acceptable indoors but casts aspersions on the breezy, white noise making vents that run the length of the coach. Wondering if the new trains to go into service in October will lower CO2 below 1000. This is the quiet car not even half full. We're mostly small, barely moving mouselike creatures. The co2 monitor blasted an ear shreiking alarm, so I jammed it between my legs trying to hold down the off button. Off buttons are now on buttons so sometimes one is not sure if one is getting off, or turning on. It wasn't a good look with my hands between my legs. I'm expecting to be escorted out of the quiet coach shortly.
legraLeGraTaking the #Amtrak #NorthEastRegional #train from NYC to DC this random Monday afternoon and its 9 cars are 💯 *sold out*.
Gone are the days when I would have a ticket and jump on the next train with no change fees. Trains are now full.
Biden said feds should use rail over air…
But is it us making it crowded? (Anyone analyzed this?)
#rail aficionados:: What does optimal inter-city rail service look like?
Is sold out ‘perfection’, or do we need a lot more trains?
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Rob PegoraroI did something Wednesday that I used to scoff at: I went from Washington to New York via plane, not train. Then I opted for the same mode of travel to get from NYC to Boston, another route on which door-to-door travel times can be shorter by rail than air.
I feel a little dirty about those less-than-green travel choices, but I had my reasons this time.
Cost was foremost among them. Amtrak fares on the Northeast Corridor have become crazy expensive if you’re booking less than a month out–two weeks from now, the 6 a.m. WAS-NYP Acela is $225 at a non-changeable value fare and $245 on a flex fare. Meanwhile airfares between National and LaGuardia or Newark can be half the price of the Acela and even cheaper than the slower Northeast Regional when booked about as far in advance.
Another shift in my D.C.-NYC travel calculus is that LaGuardia is no longer a trash can of an airport. The new terminal B is ridiculously pleasant, to the point that I can’t believe that the Port Authority built anything this nice, and getting to the rest of the city is a little easier with the free Q70 bus from LGA.
My schedule this week also argued for flying. I needed to be at a telecom conference in downtown Brooklyn by around 10 a.m., so a 7:44 a.m. American Airlines flight out of National lined up well with that timing. And flying out of DCA still allows the luxury of showing up maybe 15 minutes before boarding, at least if you remember to use the less crowded south security checkpoint even if your gate is closer to the north checkpoint.
The business case for flying wasn’t quite as strong for my journey from New York to Boston to cover the last day of an AI-policy conference there Friday (and have some family time afterwards). But a late United flight out of Newark was cheaper than the train and gave me time to catch up with an editor over drinks.
None of this makes flying to New York my new default. Amtrak can be a lot cheaper during the middle of the day, and Penn Station has seen its own immense improvement with Moynihan Train Hall waiting above the tracks instead of the old ’60s-vintage subterranean squalor.
Meanwhile, another aspect of my Northeast Corridor travel choices remains unchanged: Taking a bus and subjecting myself to I-95 and Jersey Turnpike traffic still isn’t happening.
https://robpegoraro.com/2023/11/03/cheating-on-amtrak/
#Acela #AmericanAirlines #Amtrak #BOS #Boston #LaGuardia #LGA #MoynihanTrainHall #NEC #Newark #NortheastCorridor #NortheastRegional #NYC #PennStation #train #UnitedAirlines
Tilo SchumannInnen macht der #Acela einen auf Flugzeug mit verschließbaren Gepäckfächern, Belüftung usw. Man merkt, dass die TGVs nicht mehr die neuesten sind: in Kurven schlug der Wagenkasten schon Mal hart auf. Die Federn sind offenbar ausgereizt. Aus dieser Perspektive würde ich den #NortheastRegional empfehlen: billiger, nur 30min langsamer, ruhigere Fahrt und bequemer. #Amtrak
Unser Zug fährt weiter nach #Roanoke in Virginia und hat damit einen der längsten Zugläufe eines #NortheastRegional. Er fährt schon 8 Uhr morgens in Boston los. Für die 330 km von New York nach Washington braucht er 3 1/2 Stunden. Für die Weiterfahrt nach Roanoke, was auch nur 330 km sind, dann planmäßig 4 Stunden, aber mit einer Stunde Lokwechselzeit und den üblichen Güterzugeinflüssen war er erst acht Stunden später um Mitternacht an seinem Ziel. #Amtrak
Noch ein paar Ausblicke aus dem #NortheastRegional von #Amtrak kurz vor Baltimore.
