Originally Posted by
nerd
Originally Posted by
AlanB
They also want to make sure that you are boarding the correct train too, one reason that they check tickets in NYP. You'd be surprised at the high number of people who board the wrong train at Penn.
But you still can board the wrong train once you're on the platform, no?
There is always a slight chance of that happening, but they usually try to avoid having two trains boarding from the same platform at Penn. Therefore if there is a second train on the platform, usually it's either unloading passengers making it hard to confuse things, the doors are closed, or it's not an Amtrak train if it is boarding.
On the very rare occasions that circumstances do require two Amtrak trains boarding from the same platform, at least in my experience they station an employee at the bottom of the escalator to point people to the correct train. And then they'll use the East gate for one train, and the west gate for the other train, so that the employee on the platform at the bottom of the escalator already knows which train you're supposed to be on.