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Amtrak Cascades On Board Screens Survey

The Amtrak Cascades are conducting a survey about what kind of information passengers want to see on the overhead monitors.  Take the survey and receive a 2 for 1 Amtrak Cascades coupon!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LXBMW7G

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December 10th: Holiday Gathering at Centennial Station

Our Annual Holiday Gathering will be on December 10th from noon-4 p.m. at Centennial Station, 6600 Yelm Hwy, Lacey. Cost is $10 per person cash or check for pizza, subs and beverages. The meeting is timed to work with Amtrak Cascades and the Coast Starlight to get to the station. The program will feature the new Director of the WSDOT Rail and Marine Office (invited). Topic: Vision for the Washington passenger rail program in the near future. Also a legislative outlook for 2012 for passenger rail.

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Amtrak Trip Greenville, SC to Seattle Part 2 of 2

Continued from Part 1.

Boston-Chicago, July 23-24 Since I was going to be in a Viewliner sleeping car from Boston to Chicago and was unsure about the time I might have in Chicago to repack, before leaving my niece’s, I crammed everything I would need for four nights into my overnight bag. I checked my suitcase all the way to Seattle from Boston.

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Amtrak Trip Greenville, SC to Seattle Part 1 of 2

The excuse for my trip (after flying to Cincinnati and renting a car to drive to my college fraternity convention in Columbus, Ohio; then to Kingston, Tennessee to visit my brother and his wife; and Asheville, North Carolina to visit my nephew and his family) was to return by train with stopovers in Wilmington, Delaware to visit an old colleague and in Rhode Island to visit my niece and her family.
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Added Seattle-Portland Amtrak service for Thanksgiving weekend

Today, Oct. 24, Amtrak loaded the extra Seattle-Portland Thanksgiving weekend service into its reservations system.  Similar to last year, Amtrak is adding a total of 11 additional one-way trips for the holiday weekend.  The extra trips will run on Wednesday Nov. 23, Thursday Nov. 24, Saturday Nov. 26 and Sunday Nov. 27. 

One trip is an 11:59 PM departure on Wednesday night, which is mostly a positioning move to run an extra northbound trip on Thanksgiving Day morning.  This train will run nonstop from Seattle to Portland.

The equipment will again be Amfleet and Horizon cars, not Talgo trainsets.

A number of runs at prime travel times are already sold out over the five-day travel weekend. If you want to travel, it’s best to get your reservations made as soon as possible.  Since the trains will virtually sell out on Wednesday, Thursday morning and Sunday, tickets are set at the highest price level.  For example one-way between Seattle and Portland is $52.

Amtrak is also providing a total of 10 one-way Thruway bus trips between Seattle and Portland on Wednesday and Sunday.  These buses will run nonstop between the two cities.

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Amtrak 40th anniversary train in Seattle this weekend!

Join Amtrak, NARP, All Aboard Washington, and others at King Street Station in Seattle this weekend (Oct 22nd and 23rd) for the 40th anniversary exhibit train from 10am until 4pm. The train has displays from Amtrak’s 40 years of providing passenger rail service across america. The event is free to the public and will only be in town on these two days!

http://www.amtrak40th.com/exhibit-train/stops/seattle-wa

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