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Jan 16, 2012, 5:51 am

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Originally Posted by littlemookie

2) Earning points - Aside from the 36k credit card offer that AGR had, there are not many ways to rack up the points. Amtrak travel, which is the purpose of the program only earns 2-3 points per dollar plus whatever promotion AGR is currently running. There is a FT thread where FT'ers tell their year end balances, and they are not crazy high. Having 100k in AGR points is rare. I would be curious how many points are redeemed each year, and the cost to Amtrak.

Or you could get one each of the Chase Sapphire, Ink Bold and Freedom cards and transfer those sign-up bonuses to AGR and get 130k points right there.

I suspect not many are using their Ultimate Rewards points for that, but I thought I'd mention anyway as it is possible to get a large number of Amtrak points easily and cheaply, albeit as a one-off exercise.

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