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Thanks. I will investigate that site. I have never flown internationally in First Class, but, I have a few Business Class flights under my keel pre-Covid. Service by courses was once the standard for Business Class pre-Covid. flights. Even on my Singapore Airlines flight where there was a...

The occasional discussion of Amtrak menus and the years when different trains had their own menus has been of interest to me. I do recall the times when such regional menus were available and helped to make train travel fun. As a result of my interest, I have been doing some researching on...

You are asking a good question and it is one more example of where a hard copy system timetable would be helpful to see if such a trip is possible. The map would easily show the routes. I suggest that you try to find a map of the Amtrak routes in the Northeast on the Amtrak web site. That...

This kind of an excuse is rather like a SCA keeping bags of linen in the shower of a Viewliner sleeper to keep it from being used.

And, make note of her name and contact Customer Service.

I agree mostly with what you are saying. Having only booths in the SSL is not as desirable for sightseeing as individual seats, in my opinion. Someone is going backwards all the time.

I agree. It's impossible to remove all the hazards of life. It's ridiculous for anyone to even think about removing the SSL from service or to keep people from sitting in them because of "what if"....

You are an optimist!

It's been a bad day for public transportation in the last two days. The Amtrak issue on the West Coast, the SWC's derailment, and the Norwegian Sun's striking a growler trying to visit the Hubbard Glacier.

NBC Nightly News reported a few minutes ago that two killed were passengers on the train. The truck driver died. According to the news report, the driver ended up in a ditch nearby the accident. A Boy Scout was nearby (for some reason) and tried to provide some comfort to the person before he...

I agree with most of your post, but, no one had a strategy to deal with a pandemic, including all 50 state governments and the Federal Government. Such a sudden contraction of Amtrak's and the airlines' business with the severe loss of revenue, many decisions had to be made quickly. And like...

Consistency in operations and consistency in the passenger experience is greatly needed. I am optimistic as well.

I would be surprised if he didn't have such aides. Federal departments seem to have Deputy Secretaries, Under Secretaries, Assistant Deputy and Under Secretaries etc. for "this, that, and the other".

I think Airbus introduced the "fly by wire" technology as it was called at the time. Initially, there were some accidents that, I think, was attributed to both the technology and the learning of the technology by the pilots. The Smithsonian Channel is running a series of programs titled Air...

Thank you. I continue to learn. That is what I was remembering. I am more familiar with tracks East of the Mississippi than I am West of the river. I know there are many areas where there used to be at least double tracks and are now down to one track.

As a Boeing shareholder and flies on both Boeing and Airbus planes, I completely agree with your post. Have not flown on all models of either company's planes, but I prefer some of the Airbus planes when compared to a similar model of a Boeing plane. I still have some hope that there may be...

Because I fly Delta from a small city market, often my connection times in ATL or MSP exceeds the 3 hour time limit. Why? Because of the scarcity of flights from DAY. There was one connection that I made in ATL when my plane arrived nearly 12 hours before my connection to a KLM flight to...

I don't think you are wrong in your thinking, but, Amtrak seems unable to enforce their supposed priority. One of the problems, I think, is that in some areas there is only a single track when years ago, there was at least one more track. That may have helped the trains in the past to better...

I haven't had the dinner on the Portland section, but have had breakfast and, for a cold breakfast, I thought it was satisfactory. A breakfast of Railroad French Toast with Bacon would have been much better, but, I knew that was not possible.

Thank you for your report. Well written. As to the "whiner" from Portland, he/she should have known what kind of meal service to expect on that section of the Empire Builder. The SSL is not set up to offer dining car style meals.