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Thanks!--jis--for your prompt reply. I am anxious to travel on the Super Star--having lived on the Space Coast and Daytona Beach for 34 years before moving back to Georgia. All my travels these days are on the Crescent. Many, many miles on the Silvers in the 1970's, 80's 90's. Perhaps a good...

Though I have no recollection of reading any comments in this forum, I am curious as to how well (or not so well) is food service being handled on the Silver Star these days--with a consist of five sleepers with the Star and Meteor combined??

Perhaps a little off point but I might add, in my opinion, the advent and popularity of cell phones and similar devices have made us all a "rude" society!

Sidney: I concur with your comment. As a former regular commuter ATN-WAS-ATN on the Crescent, I barely got to experience the new Viewliner diners before flexible dining and COVID rendered them nearly useless. Even though Floridians ejected John Mica from office in 2016, I am afraid it may be...

Palmland: Thanks for posting that news ad clip. As I have noted in the past, W. Graham Claytor Jr (my railroad icon idol) is probably sad like me to see what has happened to "his" train. I am also sad--due to the Crescent's change in northbound schedule and continuing on time inconsistencies...

It has been now nearly a one year (June 2021) since the Crescent changed its northbound schedule to an afternoon rather than morning arrival into WAS. I am wondering are there any real valid statistics on passengers who have abandoned this train due to its significantly later times north of...

With respect, I hope the food quality will be not reduced below what it is now. Since I started riding trains in the 1960's, food service seems to be at an all time low. I admit my bias is due to the fact I am travelling these days on the Silvers and the Crescent and the "flex" dining that...

Ref chicken or the egg, my best recollection is when I worked for the C&O passenger agent in Williamsburg VA in the mid 1960's, there were NO 3-letter codes for the rails but definitely YES for the airlines. The codes for rails I think came with the invention of the ARROW system for Amtrak...

joelkfla: When I got home from work tonight, I had a chance to read your reply (for which I thank you) and to review the site to which jis pointed me for viewing real photos of the Viewliner II H room. I guess I was shocked and very, very unhappy to clearly understand the layout. I repeat, I...

Thanks you very much, jis, for the prompt response. I guess I may very well be one of the few railfans who will prefer the Viewliner I . Clearly I may need the need the "toilet in room" config at a point in my life (I am 74 years)--but now, as a non-ADA passenger--it is clearly not the...

Seaboard92: I commented in this forum back in November about my love of H room in the Viewliner I--your post advised that the toilet in the Viewliner II H room is no longer enclosed but in the middle of the room and not nearly as desirable to a non-ADA passenger. I am riding the Crescent...

Wow. It had never dawned on me until reading this post that call center staff would not use their real names. Although I am an avid passenger train Amtrak fan, my real job right now takes me many days to work at a call center for 14 specialty practices at a moderate size hospital operation. I...

I hope this post is enough on point with this discussion. My favorite trains have always been the silver service trains (Comet, Meteor, Star)--largely because those were the trains I grew up with in the 1960's, etc (living around Richmond and Atlanta). Last night I posted a comment on Virtual...

Fenway: I could not help replying to your post. Although I had loved the passenger trains since birth in 1947, it was my first sleeper (Pullman then) on the Silver Comet Richmond to Atlanta in 1966 that solidified that love. Now 275,000 miles and 74 years later that love still exists. I...

Any clues or discussion as to when the Silver Meteor Amtrak 97/98 may return to service?

Another useless curiosity: after all passengers have detrained in WAS on 65/66/67, do they service the sleeper on the way to NPN?; while in NPN waiting for the trainset to turnaround on return trip to WAS?? or other???

This may have been addressed previously in this discussion and, if so, I apologize. I believe I noticed that the sleeper on 65/66/67 operates in the trainset BOS-NPN-BOS (like the Twilight Shoreliner) but is only available for occupancy WAS-BOS-WAS. Curious if this is a staffing issue or...

Help me again understand the reasoning for not assigning seats in advance--especially on the 14 Amtrak LD trains. I am sure the technology exists (much like Acela first class and all sleepers) and I realize there is always a cost associated with maintaining such a database. Back in the 1960's...

jiml: I, too, loved the Desert Wind. I had the good fortune to be on that train in a Bedroom sleeper just a few days before its last trip--I believe that was April, 1997.

I believe, jphjaxfl, our experiences may be similar. I was born in 1947 and my mother took me as an infant on a Central of Georgia train called the Man O' War from Columbus GA to Atlanta GA to visit my grandmother frequently. The Man O' War went into service in July, 1947 (a month before may...