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From: shaprkg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Bob Shapiro)
Newsgroups: net.travel,net.railroad
Subject: Re: OAG
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 13:20:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 13:20:18 1986
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In article <690@hlwpc.UUCP> cb@hlwpc.UUCP (C Blesch) writes:
>> About online fare and schedule information--has anyone heard about
>> something like the OAG for railroads?
>
>Since Amtrak and VIA Rail have the passenger train monopoly,
>they probably have control over any and all online information,
>and I'm not sure they provide it to others electronically.
>My travel agents, who are computerized for airline reservations,
>call in my train reservations by old-fashioned voice telephone.
>
>Carl Blesch

   I don't know what kind of system your travel agent has but the travel
agency that I own has a TWA PARS system and we can get schedules,
availability, and issue tickets for AMTRAK directly with that system.  I
thought that American's Sabre System also had that capability and I suspect
that those systems that don't will soon catch up.

			Bob Shapiro