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Old Mar 12, 2013 | 12:48 pm
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lo2e
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Originally Posted by Blumie
<snip>(And if the train happened to be sold out, I could have just hopped off at RTE and waited for my train.)<snip>
This part of your plan scares me - wouldn't you basically be a stowaway if you're on a train you don't have (and can't get) a ticket for?

Edit to add: Plus, I'm not even sure your RTE-NYP instead of BBY-NYP argument holds water. A conductor might not know that the two are the same price, and since you got on at BBY, you technically do not have a valid ticket until the train reaches RTE. So I think that would also qualify you as a stowaway. YMMV though.
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