Originally Posted by
amamba
Maybe this depends on your individual reservations, as I can easily see in the amtrak app 3 reservations that I made last month and with a QR code for boarding the train. Also, if I log in at amtrak.com on my laptop I am able to email the boarding document/e-ticket to my email address.
This includes one reservation I have for an acela out of RTE.
However, no one has yet addressed my concerns about the RTE tickets. If I have a ticket for boarding RTE in FC and I board in PVD, is there going to be a problem? Will my reservation be cancelled somewhere between PVD and RTE? I hope not.....I guess if I am doing a paper ticket I should be OK still. Since I will be doing an upgrade coupon (hopefully) and since someone mentioned earlier that they thought free upgrades would require paper tickets, hopefully this won't be an issue for me.
My understanding of things is that it is not time based. When the conductors finish their sweep of the train collecting/scanning tickets, they hit a button in the App that closes out the batch, as it were, from that station. Once that happens, if you didn't board at your assigned station your reservation is cancelled.
So the question becomes, can the conductors sweep the entire train in between Route 128 & Providence? My best guess is that on a day when the train is running full, they won't complete before PVD. But with a light passenger load, they may well complete before PVD and you could be in trouble.