Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mitch, there are so many inaccuracies it is hard to know where to start. In a message dated 7/4/02 9:23:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, zeissler@directvinternet.com writes: > My 91 year old grandfather .....recently finished another trip to visit me on > Amtrak from San Jose to DC and back with first class accommodations. What train does Amtrak run from San Jose through a Montana snow storm to get to DC? > - The originating pick up station in CA was *closed* San Jose Amtrak station was closed? Please, Mitch. > - Amtrak kept running out of food on the train, all the way out to the east coast. There is no train that runs from San Jose to the east coast. Grandpa would have ridden on at least three Amtrak trains. They all ran out of food? In the past five years I have ridden in Amtrak sleeping cars on the Lake Shore Limited between Chicago and either New York City or Albany ten times, between Chicago and either San Francisco or Los Angeles six times and this April between San Antonio and Chicago. I also ride Amtrak between Albany and New York City on average six times a month and between New York City and Washington D.C. on average six times a year. No Amtrak train I've ever ridden has ever run out of food nor have I ever heard of an Amtrak train "running out of food." Running out of a particular item, yes. That even happens in some of the nation's finest restaurants. > - They got stuck in a snow storm in Montana What a San Jose to DC train was doing wandering around the north country, I'll never know. Neither will Amtrak. Must have been a different trip. Maybe by different people. > and had to be bused to another location to continue the trip. Amtrak takes care of its own. Yes, Amtrak does experience delays caused by weather. And a blizzard can obstruct tracks. Your right, Mitch, I've never heard of a plane trip being delayed by a blizzard or a weather front coming in. Oh shoot, I just remembered Buffalo airport being completely shut down for four days a few winters ago. > After a stop-over in Pennsylvania, they were denied a sleeper car berth that they > > had paid for from Pittsburgh to DC Amtrak does sell out space. If they stopped over in Pennsylvania and hadn't booked in advance a bedroom for the intended day of departure, that's not Amtrak's fault, it the fault of Grandpa's SO. > and were not allowed into the first class dining car. Amtrak grudgingly allowed . > them to eat in another dining car, but not without a fight. If they had first class tickets, I simply don't believe this. Given your very clear errors and your obvous zeal for Amtrak, I have the very powerful mistrust of the rest of your *facts*. > - They arrived 6 hours late into DC because a drunk woman drove her car in > front of the train. .....obviously Amtrak's fault. > - The DC departure time on the ticket differed from what it really was, so > they missed the departing train back to Pittsburgh by 4 minutes. I don't believe this either. Tickets are computer-generated. > Since my granddad purchased the entire trip through an Amtrak ticket agent, > > Amtrak gave them a flight on US Airways to get them to PA on-time for their > connecting train [with the associated nightmare of getting a handicapped > senior through heavy security at National]. .......obviously Amtrak's fault again. Mitch, your animus against Amtrak reeks. Does Amtrak make mistakes? Of course. But give us a break, pal. Seth - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html