From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 6:34:33 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:   
   > On 16.04.19 22:55, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > > On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 8:09:31 AM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   > >   
   > >>> The plus side of all reserved is that usually you get a seat,   
   > >>> not always possible before in heavy times.  The down side is   
   > >>> that you are locked into your reservation and purchase and   
   > >>> it's a pain--and big expense--to change it.  It's very common   
   > >>> for someone to finish their day early and want to take an   
   > >>> earlier train than planned, but with reserved it's very hard.   
   > >>   
   > >> Are people in the habit of going back and forth between Washington and   
   > >> Boston -- or Philadelphia or New York -- on the same day? You posit an   
   > >> unlikely scenario (or again confuse local with long distance rides).   
   > >   
   > > Many people travel between Philadelphia and either New York   
   > > or Washington and intermediate points RT in the same day.   
   > >   
   > > I'd say plenty travel from New York to either Boston or Washington   
   > > RT in the same day.  I certainly knew some.   
   > >   
   > I've certainly travelled from New York to Philadelphia and back in a   
   > day, as well as down to DC and back.   
      
   You're a railfan. It seems unlikely you had business in any of the cities.   
      
   30th St. Station isn't convenient to either downtown or the university!   
   I've been to Philadelphia for the day at least three times -- always   
   by car.   
      
   I was in DC in October for my aunt's interment at Arlington. Both the   
   ceremony and the celebratory dinner were on a Saturday (morning and   
   afternoon). My cousin who made (and paid for) the arrangements had us   
   travel on Friday and Sunday.   
      
   Incidentally, Amtrak charged a huge amount for my ticket -- possibly   
   because I made the reservation less than a month before, but possibly   
   because for some reason I was booked southbound on the through train   
   to Miami (or some such) rather than a regular NEC trainl it wasn't   
   even listed on the NY - DC timetable. (Northbound was regular.)   
      
   I board in Newark, of course. NYPenn is unbearable.   
      
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