From: Scott Loveless
On 5/24/09, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote:
> According to the man in seat 61 you can cross the states from sea to shining
> sea for a pittance:
> <http://www.seat61.com/UnitedStates.htm#Travelling by train in the USA>
>
> He might be able to help you plan your trip from Harrisburg to St. Louis
> more effectively.
He's also a fer'ner, and Amtrak (which is subsidized with my tax
money) has a rail pass and some special pricing for foreign tourists
that are not available to us locals. Go figure. If I were from
Europe traveling by train in the US would be great.
Actually the special pricing is available to anyone. You don't have to
be a "fer'ner".
It used to be possible to buy a 15 day Amtrak USA rail pass allowing
unlimited travel, but that's gone by the way.
Now it's a 15 day/8 "segment" (or 30 day/12 segment, or 45 day/18
segment) pass. If I understand it, any interruption in the journey
counts as a segment.
If you take the train from NYC to New Orleans and stay on for the whole
journey, that's one "segment", but if you got off in Charlotte, NC and
picked up on the same train the next day, it's two "segments".
And if you have to change trains, that counts as two "segments" - NYC to
Chicago = one segment, Chicago to LA = one segment.
If you want a sleeper, you have to pay a surcharge in addition to the
rail pass fare.
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