New Amtrak baggage policy

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09-08-12 | 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by adventurepdx

The Northeast Corridor (Boston-DC and a little beyond) does have checked baggage at some of the stations. However, the last time I checked there was only one corridor train offering checked baggage and it was an overnight train.

Indeed, but it's for the masochistic amongst us. The train departs DC at 10pm and arrives New Haven at 4:25am, then a 45 minute drive home. Alternatively, I can take BoltBus (which is what I'm doing), have a bus depart every hour, not have to box the bike and arrive in the middle of the afternoon in NYC in about 5 hours. From there it's a 1.5 hour commuter train ride to within 2 miles of my house.

I've already booked the bus and will pick up my bike pass on Thursday when I'm in NYC on business . . . would have taken Amtrak instead if I could have loaded the bike during daytime travel hours.