If You Don’t Mind Delays, Amtrak Offers a Great Way To Get Rail
Just the ticket for visiting long-lost friends and seeing bits of the country, I thought upon learning I could get 10 rides in 30 days for $299.
Call it my “Friendship Tour.” When I saw Amtrak was offering 10 rides for $299 in a 30-day period on its USA Rail Pass, I thought: “What a great way to visit long-lost friends and see the country.”
The first two sectors, to New York from Washington, D.C., and back, were easy. More than 20 trains a day run between Washington and Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, and some all the way to Providence and Boston. Called the Northeast Regionals, they strive to run more or less on time.
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