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Amtrak Offers 25 Percent Discount In Northeast
| September 12th, 2010 No commentsAmtrak is offering a 25 percent discount for advance purchase of one-way fares on its Northeast Regional service, which runs from New Haven to Washington with spurs reaching Boston and Springfield, as well as Lynchburg and Newport News, Va.
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Third Round Trip Free On Amtrak’s Northeast Regional
| January 7th, 2010 No commentsAmtrak is offering a free round trip on the Northeast Regional route to members of its rewards program who complete two trips on that route before March 13.
The Northeast Regional runs from Boston through New York to Washington, with a branch running from Springfield, Mass., through Hartford to join the line in New Haven. From Washington it splits toward Lynchburg, Va., and Newport News, Va. There’s a map and more information here.
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Blogging From The Tracks
| September 6th, 2009 No commentsIf you don’t have enough blogs to read, have a look at Derailed: One Man’s Story Of His Life On (And Off) The Rails. It’s by Bobby, an Amtrak conductor, a keen observer of the human condition and a good writer to boot.
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Amtrak’s Double Standard
| August 7th, 2007 9 commentsIt strikes me as very interesting that Amtrak should promote a luxury booze train package just a few weeks after an embarrassing case in which it threw a diabetic man off a train at a remote crossing, believing he was drunk.
Jeanne Leblanc is a journalist, traveler and Web consultant. (
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