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WELCOME TO AU! And congrats on your retirement. What a wonderful celebration of your new freedom from the workforce... a ride on the CZ! Collectively there is an amazing wealth of information from the many members who love rail travel and have experienced just about everything on American rail...

Awesome trip report! Yes, I always choose the north side of the train but mostly to avoid the glare of the sun. I've been meaning to take a trip from NYP out to the 'Island' on the Long Island trains... hope to do it soon. For a perfect hotel at NYP always try to get the Fairfield Inn across...

Environmental sustainability? There's Amtrak while it's still running. After that, shall we walk or perhaps take a bike? Is anyone in DC listening?

Welcome to AU! Collectively there is a wealth of experience as well as 'problems experienced' with Amtrak's declining service. Your problem of being downgraded from a bedroom - the top tier of accommodation - to a coach seat... is about as significant of a downgrade you can possibly get. If...

Adding grief to misery! Flex is bad enough but now we're hearing more and more about food not getting boarded onto trains. The CONO and TE seem to be getting hit the most... and there's no excuse for food not being boarded in CHI which is a major Amtrak hub. What gives Amtrak??? I'm sure...

A lot of AU'ers would undoubtedly love to see a coast to coast service restored... and attempts with the Sunset to FLA have gone nowhere... the trackage wiped out by a single storm; Hurricane Katrina... never to be restored and used again? Seems like just another part of the trend towards...

He said that he was pitching in at the call center.

Amtrak wants to save money by pushing back service and chasing pax off early arriving trains??? Amtrak needs to be more focused on quality service for pax paying high high high and rising higher ... sleeping car prices... rather than cutting away service that it's clientele have paid so dearly...

So many problems on the 'reintroduced Night Owl' a while back... such as blaring announcements at NYP... an intermediate stop in which all were awakened at unimaginable hours [yes... I did do the actual Night Owl when I was a lot younger and remember the quiet knocking and whispers at NYP so as...

In retrospect, it was more about... what shall we dine on before retiring to our stateroom for the evening 😁

Thank you! It will be interesting to see if they still have the dinner or perhaps that will be cut too before my February departure. No telling with Amtrak!

Amtrak is simply going in the wrong direction!

But, um, I heard from an Amtrak exec who was taking reservation calls, about a month ago, that all diners are coming back to Eastern trains, along with the restoration of full meal service! Of course, with management being so upside down with 'what end is up?' this doesn't surprise me. The...

Again... management / policy issues go against what is best for the customer! Grrrrr!

Question for you TRA_Thom... was there dinner service out of Chicago? They leave at 8:05pm I believe. The Amtrak agent said they don't when I ordered Kosher meals for the trip. Your info would be kindly appreciated!

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Yup... I've experienced CS dining car staff laziness and selfishness... getting done quickly so they can sit back and relax hours before arriving at LAX... but when it comes to tipping... they certainly do have their hand extended! 😁 :eek::oops:

Yes! And here it is... https://www.railpassengers.org/resources/amtrak-timetables/

That's a take! The joy of dining on a train as the world goes by!!!