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Marketing rule #1: Price your wares at 'whatever the market will bear'. At one point, I was the sole source provider for some very-specific computer software. My prices were OUTRAGEOUS! Yet I got paid! In short, if you can sell all the inventory you have, then raise the price until nobody is buying!...

Although I haven't used it in a couple of years, Tickets By Mail is a simple way to get your tickets, especially if your lead-time is 2 weeks or longer. My preference is to go to the station and pick them up, typically within a day or so of making the reservation. I don't recall what the 'hold limit...

I think that CHI, NYP and WAS all qualify as major hubs, with LAX and NOL being 'small hubs'. But I think that 'what constitutes a hub?' comes down to ones yardstick of measurement. To me, a true hub, be it an airline, a shopping mall or Amtrak, is based on the number of -choices- offered. For examp...

The current Amtrak schedule for the Downeaster shows multiple departures from North Station until late at night! It would seem that regardless of the schedule of the Boston section of the Lakeshore, you will surely be able to make a connection to the Downeaster...just not the one you had planned on!...

I still stand by my 'you get what you pay for' comment. Or, put another way, "show me the $$$". You'll get some results! However... Has anyone considered the general 'slow down' (some may call it a melt down) that's occurred on most mainlines in the past 10 years or so? Why is it that even...

It's more than 2 blocks from CUS to the Dearborn St subway. As I recall, it's about 5-6, although they are 'short blocks'. If you have lots of luggage, or anything NOT on wheels, I'd suggest a taxi for the short ride. If walking, if you fail to exit CUS from the food-court level next to "Nuts o...

"Put your money where your mouth is" =is= the name of the game. Although I don't have any numbers, look at what money to the railroad can do. How much $ does one UPS-express train from CHI to NYC pay CSX? How much $ does one Amtrak train from CHI to NYC pay CSX for the same routing? I'll b...

One of the things completely "missed" in this thread is that of motivation. Back in the "good 'ol days" ...say the 40s & 50s ... The passenger trains were the "shining stars" of the railroads. After all, the Pennsy was "the standard railroad of the world" ...