<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by nerd:
That is what I suspect as well, as I'm always on the unreserved trains on these routes. What I'm uncertain of is whether an award ticket from ALB-(NYP)-PHL comes out as 2 separate tickets: on for ALB-NYP and one for NYP-PHL. My goal here is to get 2 r/t awards for the price of one.</font>
I recently booked an unreserved award for WAS-ALB and received tickets for WAS-NYP-ALB-NYP-WAS. I'd expect a similar situation for you. Keep in mind that your Guest Rewards number is printed on the award tickets, so that revenue management could eventually detect and attribute the out-of-sequence usage. That said, the reality is that it's highly, highly unlikely that they'd make the effort to harrass you.
I used to do this sort of thing all the time in college, but I can't get myself to do it nowadays. Perhaps I'm just ethically hypersensitive now...