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[quote user="oltmannd"][quote user="Sam1"]Renting a car in Harrisburg to travel to Gettysburg required a transfer from the Harrisburg Amtrak Station to the Harrisburg Airport.  Getting there, however, was easy.  I took the Capital Area Transportation #7 bus, which stops right outside the station and goes to the airport in about 25 minutes.  The paperwork for the car was ready when I arrived at the airport rental counter, and I was on my way in minutes.    [/quote] This is the part that caught my eye. The 25 minutes it took you to get to the H'burg airport pretty much negates any time savings you might have had from the recent 110 mph improvements to the Phila - Hburg line vs renting a car right out of the station in Phila. The sad thing is the line goes right past the Hburg airport. It's a no brainer to put a stop in there with a bus shuttle to the airport and, perhaps, kill the Middletown stop. Also, did you know that Henry Posner is running express bus service from the Harrisburg train station to Pittsburgh? He views it as a 'stop gap' until there is HSR of some sort to Pittsburgh.[/quote] I learned in retrospect that I could have gotten off the train at Middletown and caught the same #7 bus to the airport.  The transfer time would have been a tad shorter, but I am more familiar with the transfer arrangements from the Amtrak station in Harrisburg.  In any case, you are correct.  It would be nice to have a station at the airport for an even easier transfer.  Maybe that will happen. I prefer to rent a car in Harrisburg because it is easier to get out of the airport and onto the Penn Turnpike for the first leg of the journey to Gettysburg.  I considered renting a car in Philly, but I did not want to battle the big city traffic, especially in light of the fact that my knowledge of the Philadelphia Airport and 30th Street is confined to how to catch the SEPTA to 30th Street Station from the airport.  And since I was flying home to Austin, I needed to return the car to the airport, as opposed to the station, although I suppose I could have returned it to the station and taken SEPTA to the airport. Until last year I had never been to Philadelphia, other than to pass through it on the way to and from New York.  Although I grew up in Altoona and spent more than five years in New York City, we viewed Philadelphia was a big village somewhere between Altoona and New York.  My apologies to the folks from Philadelphia; my visit last year gave me a perspective that I did not have.  It is a nice city.   My mother was addicted to Broadway, as in theaters and shows, and Philadelphia was just a stop on the way to New York.  For years the trains from and to Altoona bypassed 30th Street Station.  They stopped at North Philadelphia.    Besides, the train ride from Philadelphia through the Lancaster Valley is laced with scenery that I didn't want to miss.  If I had driven, I would not have been able to enjoy it as much, unless I pulled off to the side of the road to soak it up.  Interestingly, I could tell which farms were probably Amish.  It was Monday.  They had their clothes out on a clothesline.  None of that dryer stuff for them.  Who is Henry Posner?  And where can I find information about his express bus service?  I will be in Pittsburgh next month.  I plan to take the Pennsylvanian to Baltimore, but it would be nice to have an alternative if the train breaks down.
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