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Old Dec 11, 2013 | 1:43 pm
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Originally Posted by ne52
If you get closer than 1,500 through your other travel, I would just knock out a couple of multi-city trips like WAS>NCR>BWI to save some cash.
You mean buy a series of tickets for each pair of stations, and at each station hop off and then back on the same train? I hadn't thought of that... and doing a WAS-NCR-BWI-BAL-ABE run twice would take less time than going all the way to NWK and back on the Acela, in addition to costing close to $100 less. Hmm. @:-)

Except it seems like Amtrak should frown on this tactic--if you pulled that stunt to NYP and back, you could easily clock 800 points one way.
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