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Steven M. Scharf wrote:
>
> "Konrad Den Ende" wrote in
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> news:c2l8ej$qs5$1@news.gu.se...
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> How does it work on trains in US? I know buses are always guaranteed
to
> have a sit for you, no matter how many people would like to go. How
about
> trains? Never been on one in US so every tip is of value...
>
> There will be a seat for you, but it may not be a reserved seat.
They don't
> overbook. It's more like Southwest Airlines, no reserved seats. On
longer
> routes there may be reserved seats.
>
On most long-distance trains (including the Florida trains) you must
make
a reservation beforehand, but it doesn't reserve a specific seat as on
an
airliner. It simply means that there will be an unoccupied seat for
you
somewhere on the train. And trains *do* fill up sometimes, making it
impossible to book a trip on a particular train. Amtrak usually
cannot
add extra coaches on short notice, because they don't have enough
equipment for that, or if they do, it's not available in the needed
location.
Traveling by train in the U.S. is usually very different from
traveling by
train in Europe. The Florida-Orlando route is better than most in
that
there is more than one train per day in each direction!
Only in a few heavily-travelled corridors such as Washington - New
York -
Boston will you find trains running as often as on many European
routes,
with at least some unreserved trains.
--
Jon Bell Presbyterian
College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina
USA
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