November Amtrak Mileage Tally Submissions, and earlier trips. Options

[saxman66]

Quick jaunt on the Eagle again.

Train #22, Nov. 7th, FTW to DAL, 31 miles

[BillMagee]

saxman66 : your Amtrak Mileage Tally submission has been recorded as follows:

7-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 22 Texas Eagle; from Fort Worth, TX to Dallas, TX ; 31 miles

This submission added 1 segment and 31 miles to your 2009 totals.
Your 2009 totals are 90 segments and 34,394 miles. Your 2008 totals were 43 segments and 11,662 miles
Your 2009 mileage is 17.4% of 197,601 miles submitted by all participants to date.
You are presently ranked 1 out of 27 participants.

[NJCoastExp]

11/15 661 PHL-LNC
11/15 666 LNC-PHL
11/15 4673 PHL-LDW

Saw a chimney coming down. Encountered stupid ticket agent at PHL. Will have "fun" claiming points for 4673. Saw a broken down PATCO at BFB.

[KevinKorell]

11/15 661 PHL-LNC
11/15 666 LNC-PHL
11/15 4673 PHL-LDW

Saw a chimney coming down. Encountered stupid ticket agent at PHL. Will have "fun" claiming points for 4673. Saw a broken down PATCO at BFB.

Piotr you mentioned in the chat your eastbound Keystone was 664, not 666. Also Amtrak's Thruway # for NJT 4673 is 7873.

[NJCoastExp]

You are right on 664. I used number used in printed Amtrak national timetable (NJT train number) for the Thruway connection.

[Jack615]

11/14 2251 RTE-NYP 220 miles
11/15 2258 NYP-RTE 220 Miles

Jack

[BillMagee]

NJCoastExp : your Amtrak Mileage Tally submission has been recorded as follows:

15-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 661 Keystone; from Philadelphia (30th Street Station), PA to Lancaster, PA ; 68 miles
15-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 664 Keystone; from Lancaster, PA to Philadelphia (30th Street Station), PA ; 68 miles
15-Nov-09 : Amtrak Connection 4673 Thruway Train; from Philadelphia (30th Street Station), PA to Lindenwold (NJ Transit), NJ ; 21 miles

This submission added 3 segments and 157 miles to your 2009 totals.
Your 2009 totals are 43 segments and 12,463 miles. Your 2008 totals were 12 segments and 4,218 miles
Your 2009 mileage is 6.3% of 197,768 miles submitted by all participants to date.
You are presently ranked 5 out of 27 participants.

[BillMagee]

Jack615 : your Amtrak Mileage Tally submission has been recorded as follows:

14-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 2251 Acela Express; from Westwood - Route 128 Station, MA to New York (Penn Station), NY ; 220 miles
15-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 2258 Acela Express; from New York (Penn Station), NY to Westwood - Route 128 Station, MA ; 220 miles

This submission added 2 segments and 440 miles to your 2009 totals.
Your 2009 totals are 16 segments and 5,285 miles. Your 2008 totals were 6 segments and 3,785 miles
Your 2009 mileage is 2.7% of 198,208 miles submitted by all participants to date.
You are presently ranked 16 out of 27 participants.

[chuljin]

Oh, Chuljin: are you out there?

I am, sorry. The database I use for tracking trips seriously bit the dust about a month ago...and I haven't yet gotten around to fixing it. At least the hard-to-recreate tables were intact, but most of the views/queries (including the one whence my tally submissions would just pop out) are gone. I'll likely submit non-Gathering October and November separately as successive posts at the end of this thread, later this month.
How about at least this, activity as a result of the 2009 Gathering organized in Another Place, just to stay in the game: (all by hand, ugh...sorry if mileages are off)
10/23(-25) #4 LAX-CHI 2256mi
10/28 #352 MCI-NLS 47mi
10/28 #353 NLS-CHI 89mi
10/28(-29) #448 CHI-BOS 1017mi ---(?...959 to 141 on the common section, 199 to 0 on the BOS section, right?)
10/30 #2171 BOS-PVD 43mi
10/31 #693 BON-POR 116mi
10/31 #696 POR-BON 116mi
11/01 #2259 BOS-WAS 457mi
11/02 #93 BAL-BWI 11mi ---(oops, trying to go BAL-WIL on 178; Amtrak punk'd me by having frequent NEC service and
11/02 #196 BWI-WIL 80mi ---I boarded the wrong train. Fortunately, two great Amtrak employees helped me recover.)
11/08 #785 SAN-GDL 134mi

Thanks!
Chris

P.S. In addition for your tireless tally work, thank you also for the tip about Campo's...it was excellent.

[BillMagee]

Ah, I knew I could count on you to put us over the top for 200k! Glad you enjoyed Campo's. Geno's and Pat's live on reputation. Campo's is the real deal. Truth be known, I would lean more toward something like the Parc Bistro (18th and Locust) for a glass (or two, or three, or just bring the bottle) of red wine and some philly-style french food at a sidewalk table, but I could lose my man card over that, so we'll just let it go.

As for miles, the only minor error was Michigan City to Niles: 37 miles, not 47.

chuljin : your Amtrak Mileage Tally submission has been recorded as follows:

23-Oct-09 : Amtrak Train 4 Southwest Chief; from Los Angeles, CA to Chicago, IL ; 2256 miles
28-Oct-09 : Amtrak Train 352 Wolverine Service; from Michigan City, IN to Niles, MI ; 37 miles
28-Oct-09 : Amtrak Train 353 Wolverine Service; from Niles, MI to Chicago, IL ; 89 miles
28-Oct-09 : Amtrak Train 448 Lake Shore Limited; from Chicago, IL to Boston (South Station), MA ; 1017 miles
30-Oct-09 : Amtrak Train 2171 Acela Express; from Boston (South Station), MA to Providence, RI ; 43 miles
31-Oct-09 : Amtrak Train 693 Downeaster; from Boston (North Station), MA to Portland, ME ; 116 miles
31-Oct-09 : Amtrak Train 696 Downeaster; from Portland, ME to Boston (North Station), MA ; 116 miles
1-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 2259 Acela Express; from Boston (South Station), MA to Washington, DC ; 457 miles
2-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 93 Northeast Regional; from Baltimore (Penn Station), MD to Baltimore (BWI Airport Rail Station), MD ; 11 miles
2-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 196 Northeast Regional; from Baltimore (BWI Airport Rail Station), MD to Wilmington, DE ; 80 miles
8-Nov-09 : Amtrak Train 785 Pacific Surfliner; from San Diego, CA to Glendale, CA ; 134 miles

This submission added 11 segments and 4,356 miles to your 2009 totals.
Your 2009 totals are 419 segments and 11,150 miles. Your 2008 totals were 319 segments and 7,526 miles
Your 2009 mileage is 5.5% of 202,564 miles submitted by all participants to date.
You are presently ranked 6 out of 27 participants.