Johnny's a big proponent of rail travel but you can't have this

As some of you may know from previous posts, Johnny doesn't fly. He drives and or takes train rides. He very much enjoys the train. He also likes it when he gets a ticket that Amtrak tells him the correct platform it's leaving from so he can, you know, get on. Well Saturday Amtrak told over 200 passengers the WRONG platform number for their ACELA Amtrak ride from Penn Station to Washington D.C.

Now suppose you're the conductor waiting on the platform the train was actually waiting to depart on, would you notice that ZERO people got on board? Would you use your radio to call someone? Not if you're the conductor on ACELA 2253, the fact nobody (NOBODY) got on didn't phase them one bit. So off an empty train went to Washington D.C.

Yes, empty:

“They literally sent us to the wrong platform, and the conductor took off without any passengers,” said Damien Miano, 60, of Chelsea. “The right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing. It was just so bizarre.”

Several passengers took to Twitter to vent their rage — and bewilderment.

“@Amtrak u didn't find it strange that no one from NYC got on the Acela to DC?? Left an entire train of people at Penn #mindblown,” wrote @JamieBraaten.

“Thanks @Amtrak, missing a wedding cause Acela 2253 left NYC without boarding any passengers,” wrote @mikeyuBCN.

More on the ghost train to D.C. right here, all aboard!

Jets and Giants football gameday!

Two New Jersey teams in desperate need of a victory take to the gridiron today with vastly different opponents standing in their way. The Jets are in Washington D.C. to take on the mostly hapless Redskins (does John Riggins still play for them?) while Big Blue has a markedly different task on the other end of the NFL power rankings. The undefeated and well rested (off since Thanksgiving Day) Green Bay Packers will bring their so-called invincible road show to the New Meadowlands for a 4:15 kickoff.

So New Jersey and New York football fans -- Can the Jets push the 'Skins around the park and get Mark Sanchez in some kind of rhythm? Can the Giants come roaring out of the tunnel and play nose to nose with Green Bay?

Johnny knows this, he wouldn't want to be on the Acela coming back from D.C. later this afternoon and early this evening. With all those Jets fans the bar car will run out of booze early. Then the Amtrak insurrection will begin. The cabin announcements won't so much be informative tidbits about stops and schedules but rather a screaming into the captain's microphone later translated to police as "J-E-T-S JETS! JETS JETS!"