Originally Posted by
jackal
Still, the NEC--and specifically, really only Acela on qualifying city pairs--is the only place Amtrak intended to make it possible to earn a significant number of AGR points.
That's absolutely not true. Anyone buying a sleeper or a roomette on a long journey earns a nice amount of points. I picked up a little over 1,000 for a sleeper on LAX-PDX back in October.