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Welcome! Now it's time to head to NYC and see the other coast - you know, the one without the drought, forest fires, earthquakes and mudslides but with cars buried in snow and ice and all those people in such a crowded space. :)

Besides, it's fun looking for periscopes sticking up and thinking how big those icebergs used to be in the old days before they shrunk! 😟

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:eek:😱 That's worse than awful. Isn't such punishment banned by the Geneva Convention? I have pictures of my grandfather in the 1920s going to the beach in his three piece suit.

What happened to the Bastille line? Well, it was chopped off from the Metro! What else? :)

Nothing in Amtrak is consistent except for their lack of consistency.

Only in restaurants that serve decent food. and flex dining does NOT qualify as decent in any manner, shape or form IMHO. Cheap paper menus are perfect for cheap paper-tasting "food".

What if it was multiple passengers and had paid high bucket for rooms? Would the conductor have that much? As to itinerant riverboat gamblers, they left when Amtrak went to flex food. Even they wouldn't bet on that! :)

Just give them a throwaway email address. I use them by the dozens and the nice thing is you can temporarily or permanently shut down any one of them with a single click on the incoming message. Even if the place wants you to verify the email address by responding to a link, it works like a...

Is that just your train or will it change on tomorrow's train because that's what the crew decided was the "standard"? Our Cardinal westbound trip had the same dinner rule but on the outbound trip, we could eat in the "diner". There are no standards on Amtrak because the "Amtrak Standards...

I used to have a Tee Shirt that fully represented my feeling on the issue: This is as dressed up as I get

We had looked into the QM2 in the past and found they were far more formal than we liked. I hate being told that we have to dress up in jacket and tie (or worse) for dinner. I'm paying and I want to relax. We instead took a Celebrity cruise out of Florida transatlantic on a repositioning cruise...

From the article: Sounds wonderful. Amtrak needs to get rid of the old face of passenger railroading in America. Those old faces are not P42s. Those old faces are the board and executives of Amtrak. Soon to follow the P42s.

Parking costs? Not enough Parking? Not at the many stations I leave from including Charlotte, Salisbury, Greensboro & Cary in NC, Greenville & Charleston in SC, Savannah and Jessup, GA and Hinton, Prince & White Sulfur Springs, WV. Only Atlanta has paid parking for my departure stations but I...

Not necessarily. Reducing to the point of not running at all does get to the point that the cost per passenger is zero because you have no passengers. So-called non-revenue cars do produce revenue by filling the other cars. And adding more revenue cars brings in more money which should reduce...

If Gold Standard still means what it used to - the top of the line, then what we have here , a downgrade from the much higher meal nickel slug standard from years back when it comes to Amtrak and the airlines, is more like wooden nickel standard. Sad.

"Seems to be ending". No official announcement of any breakup date. You initiated your account in November so you should get what you are entitled to either by BoA or Amtrak.

There are places where, I believe, it is not unreasonable to do fairly inexpensively. Albuquerque is one. It is a long stop anyway. It has extra tracks, Rio Metro there, and more. Unlike previously mentioned mail cars, nobody rides in a car carrier. So it's a matter of stopping for a few moments...

I think my words came out wrong. Probably should read: But then there is no reason, if economically feasible, that Brightline West can't add party cars at suitably higher cost to their trains.

Nah! Changed computer to commuter. There was a computer on the tracks. Normally, Amtrak would just run right over it without a problem but it was an old Univac - covered all the tracks. Only kidding!