From: Patrick Finley (pfinley@wi.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 17:15:22 CDT
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 06:57 AM, Roman Smith wrote:
> Our 2003 crew is planning on taking the train from South Bend to
> Raton. We
> have decided to go ahead an buy the tickets.
>
> Amtrak's policy (last I talked to them) was that you may purchase the
> tickets up to 11 months from the departure date. They have a number of
> different prices for each train. For example, there may be 10 seats at
> $200...20 additional seats for $300 and the rest of the seats may be
> $400.
> They also have pricing where if an adult purchases a full fare ticket,
> up
> to 2 youth may travel at half price each.
>
> We will be purchasing the best package we can get, the dividing the
> total
> cost by 12.
>
> When we went in 1999, we got off of the train in Chicago for a 3 hour
> layover. The porter saw us in uniform and asked if we were going to
> Ratan.
> He led us to a waiting area, suggested a place for our pack line and
> asked
> us to keep 2 persons with the packs at all times.
>
> On the way back to South Bend, the dining car had a breakfast special
> for
> all scouts in uniform.
>
> We were onlyu 3 hours late getting to Philmont, 4 hours late getting
> back
> to South Bend.
> Roman Smith
> SM Troop 505
> 2003 Trek
>
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