Acela series

[oltmannd]

For those of you who follow baseball, the Phillies and Yankees WS has been called the "Turnpike Series" by some (exit 3 to exit 18 - E or W - take your pick) but the Phillies took Amtrak to NY yesterday, so it really should be called the "Acela Series".

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I'll go with the Phillies in seven.

[oltmannd]

A lot of the Yankee fans think this is going to be a cake-walk. It isn't. These teams are very evenly matched...except in payroll! Hoping Phillies can pull it off, but have no feel for this either way. Have noticed that more and more teams along the NEC are using Amtrak rather than charter buses to get to their away games. 30 years ago, none of them did.

[Paul Milenkovic]

Um, do they get a block of seats together, do they have to go marching down the aisles asking someone with headphones on with their bag on the seat of they can sit there like the rest of us, or does Acela have a first-class/business class option that allows reserving seats?

At least with a charter bus they can sit together and get door-to-door transportation, and there are customized charter buses with more leg room and other amenities, and they have to get from the train station to the stadium somehow as well.

[oltmannd]

They chartered a train...I think 3 cars and an AEM7. There are 25 guys on the active roster, another half dozen or so that are inactive, but still travel, the manager and his staff of a 10 or so, the front office guys, and perhaps even the press all travelling together. That's a lot of charter buses if they are other than 54 seat MCIs. I do remember in the early 80s, that the NBA teams would fly commercial. I once was at the baggage claim at Hartsfield with the 76ers as they waited for their bags.

[jeaton]

HEY!!  I may make 7 figures playing in the BIGS and you expect me to travel on a BUS!!!  What is this?   Durham (NC)?

(And there better be a well stocked stretch Hummer for the ride from the station to the ballpark.)

[DMUinCT]

Paul Milenkovic

Um, do they get a block of seats together, do they have to go marching down the aisles asking someone with headphones on with their bag on the seat of they can sit there like the rest of us, or does Acela have a first-class/business class option that allows reserving seats?

At least with a charter bus they can sit together and get door-to-door transportation, and there are customized charter buses with more leg room and other amenities, and they have to get from the train station to the stadium somehow as well.

The 20 Acela Train sets that ply the Northeast Corridor have ONLY "First Class" and "Business Class" seating.  If you want a "Coach Class" ticket you must take a Northest Regional train (Coach Class is also all reserved on the Northeast Corridor trains) (New York to Philladelphia, 47 trains each way each day--- Acela running time 1hr 11 min).

I would think adding extra Amfleet coaches for a ball team to a regional train would be no problem, adding a special train into a fully saturated corridor might be a problem.

[aegrotatio]

 Yeah on that route Acela only goes an average of 10 miles per hour faster than the Regionals, but twice as fast as the bus and relatively no unexpected delays.

 

 

 

[BNSFwatcher]

Well, with "Business Class", on Amtrak, they can sit together and fondle each other without disturbing the other passengers.  With a charter bus, the lights can be turned off and 'anything goes'.

"Guy Groping" (football) is only second to wresting ("Boy Groping") and basketball ("Parts Exposing") for the perverts!  I won't mention bicycle racing, and other weird thingies.  Have fun!