[Philmont] Albuquerque to Philmont

Amtrak's "Santa Fe stop" is really Lamy, N. M. There is a shuttle to
Santa Fe.

Amtrak has fares that allow you to travel within certain "regions" of
the country. You can do multple "regions" as well. Our agent found
that this price was better than the regular tickets with discounts.
The "regions" have varied over the years. When you cross the boundry,
you add another "region" and the price goes up.

We had over two hours for each connection. Sometimes 4 to 6 hours.
They missed them all. I will be glad to give you the gory detail
offline if you wish.

Jimmy
Proponent of train travel, but something has to improve.

Donald S. Roberts wrote:

>>From: Jimmy Workman
>>We took the train from Raleigh this past summer. It turned into a
>>diaster due to late trains and poor service. I hope ours was the
>>exception and not the rule.
>>
>>
>
>>From what I've seen of Amtrak, it would appear if you have
>connections and change trains, you are really taking a risk
>when it comes to schedule. If you are JUST on the line that
>goes through Raton (Los Angeles to Chicago, Southwest Chief),
>it would appear you usually get pretty close to on time
>service. One thing you can do to get a feel for the service
>you can expect is to go on the Amtrak web site periodically
>and check the current trains on those lines to see how close
>they are hitting their times. You could do this several
>times before committing to your train tickets and get a
>pretty good feel for your chances.
>
>I would guess the biggest problem with connections is the
>fact the Southwest Chief runs but once a day, and if your
>connection is too late, you will be a full day off.
>
>It should be noted that those taking the train from the west
>have fewer issues with scheduling than those from the east.
>If you come from the west, since the train gets to Raton
>after 6pm or so, you MUST check in the following day. Thus,
>even if your train is 8 hours late, you STILL check in on
>time. Since the train from the east is scheduled at 10am or
>so, Eastern crews tend to arrive on check in day. If the
>train is very late, this can be very disconcerting. I think
>over the years I've been on this list (and its bowline predecessor)
>most of the complaints about the train seem to come from
>the easterners, while the westerners tend to be very happy
>with it.
>
>
>>Another thing to watch out for is the boundry on the regional
>>travel. The boundry has appeared to vary over the years.
>>
>>
>
>This statement baffles me. What are you talking about?
>"Bound[a]ry on the regional travel?" Huh?
>
>
>>We went to Santa Fe and used Leading the Way Tours,
>>
>>
>
>How did you get to Santa Fe? The Southwest Chief doesn't
>go through there. Did you take Leading the Way from Alb to
>Santa Fe, then to Philmont? Something other than a train?
>
>Don Roberts
>Fullerton, CA
>Getting ready for the 2008 trek lottery and hoping we do
>better than 2007 when we ended up something like 1450 in
>the wait list!
>
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Received on Tue Sep 26 11:54:03 2006