Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Radey Shouman Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Daytime running light popularity Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:47:30 -0500 Organization: None of the above Lines: 35 Message-ID: <87ldxow55p.fsf@mothra.home> References: <87cyj14jpu.fsf@mothra.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:47:30 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="773a8b7d154745a145757a50f6bc3463"; logging-data="1877214"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Ib2UygAb61aw4Ik7DO7qI6ikSsPxLqJU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aEd273oU05FeI9CKyLFpYbYSqfg= sha1:zZGdfKj+zhScgl2h/u9NIHuXn0I= Frank Krygowski writes: > On 11/11/2024 3:08 PM, Radey Shouman wrote: >> Frank Krygowski writes: >>>> Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>>> There is zero passenger train service here. We once took Amtrak >>>>> home >>>>> from Oregon. At that time, we were able to get off in the center of >>>>> Youngstown, but that's not been true for many, many years. >>>>> Interestingly, our bikes couldn't be unloaded here. We had to later >>>>> drive to Pittsburgh to fetch them. >>> >>> At that time (at least) Amtrak required fitting the bikes into boxes, >>> which involved a bit of work, given that we had full camping >>> loads. And yes, they were in a separate baggage car that we couldn't >>> access when we departed the train. >> I used Amtrak for one leg of bike trip in 2021. We put the bikes in >> a >> dedicated area of a car at the rear of the train. I think they might >> have hung from hooks, but can't really remember. >> We were able to get to them when underway, to stash or retrieve >> stuff. >> We had been warned that if too many people showed up and wanted to move >> bicycles that there might not be room, there was no reservation or extra >> charge for bicycles. > That was usually how we found things when traveling in Europe. > > I think some U.S. bike advocacy groups have been trying to get Amtrak > to make traveling with bikes easier. Maybe they've succeeded. I can't say. My only other experience with Amtrak was being refused a ticket because it looked like snow. No bicycle that time. --