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There are/were changing lounges in the coach cars?

I know exactly of that person. When I commuted weekly from FTW-AUS, if I saw her I didn't bother trying to eat. I remember when she disappeared and the others expressed their joy. I am in hope this one received a similar treatment. Remember the Ogre of the Chicago Metropolitan Lounge? haven't...

That is where the Onboard Service Supervisor shone. Crap like this just didn't happen.

That's no excuse. She was paid to serve the customers, not to vent her spleen. Works the other way, too - why should I be excused for barking at a server because I'm in a bad mood?

Looks like a step in the right direction.

The abject stupidity of parking on or near the tracks boggles the mind. Engineers seeing red and blue flashers ahead presume the incident to not be on the tracks. It takes just a couple of seconds to light a couple of Fusees and drop them on the tracks. A red glare is visible for much farther...

Indeed, I could have gone that way. I try not to make a big deal about my leg. I'm pretty fortunate that it doesn't really hamper me and there are many folks not as fortunate. Does give the TSA the clammydamps when it shows on the scanner. It's carbon fiber, apparently news of this technology...

The whole trip was fraught with unpleasant, unfriendly service. The SB Eagle was at least a city block down the tracks from the platform in FTW. All the way down past the old control tower. When I asked the SCA why, I was told "Coaches are back there". He seemed miffed when I showed him my...

ISTR when I boarded FTW-LAX, the train was wayyyyy the Hellandgone down the track, past the old control tower, instead of at the platform directly across from the bus lanes. When I questioned this, I got a really snotty attitude and an "I dunno" from the SCA. This was the beginning of a pretty...

But then where would the SCAs, CCAs, Conductors and other staff have a place to spread out, lounge, BS about how bad their jobs are and store their crap instead of keeping tabs on that for which they are supposed to be caring? Silly you... <Insert grinning emoji here>

The sightseer lounge is a great place to see both sides of the rail and even the sky We watched the eclipse from Beaumont area in the SSL. It is also more comfortable to enjoy a snack, stretch your legs, even <GASP!> strike up a conversation with new acquaintances. We also used to have long...

Traditional Dining and the Sightseer Lounge are indeed the priorities. Frankly, the freight congestion is here and it will stay. It really doesn't bother me if the train is late at our destination. It is the wait for it to attive at the journey's start that is annoying.

Just got in from DAL-CHI-DAL over T-Day. Same glop in "diner", slight change in choices, but still glop in a takeout pan left cooling on the table until you arrive. Plastic utensils, some broken (!), have to ask for ice, breakfast omelette, potatoes and sausages really the only edible part of...

Just got home from roundtrip DAL-CHI-DAL on The Eagle. Food is still glop, a couple of changes, but still an unappetizing mess slopped into a round foil takeout bowl, left on the table until we arrove, plastic utensils (one knife broken, then one spoon broken). No tablecloths, have to ask for...

As the food service on the SAS-CHI portion of The Eagle, the Cardinal and the CONO began its increasing death spiral, I looked into alternatives to suffering that slop. Yes, the Snack Bar has some edible viands, and I am partial to the hot dogs, we came up with the alternative of carrying snacks...

As inexpensively as AMTRAK could get pods in bulk (how about an AMTRAK SELECT custom K-Cup?) they could leave them in the rooms as theu used to leave bottles of water. However, comma, unless Keurig came up with a bulletproof MilSpec design, the offeemakers would be trashed within a couple of...

I confess to somewhat picky tastes, I am a meat bread and taters kind of guy. Broccoli, strong green vegetables, smelly cheese, Brussels Sprouts and the like are a no go for me. And PLEASE, don't leave cucumbers on the greens. then wrap them up to perfuse the good stuff with that horrid stench...

They are monkeying with the FLEX garbage <apologies for the redundancy> again? Other than the morning omelette, there is nothing in a FLEX that is remotely appealing. We are riding DAL-CHI over the Thanksgiving weekend. We bring our own electric cooler and coffee maker. They continue to beat...

AMTRAK played around with Pepsi for awhile until they came to their senses.

Six years of US Navy coffee on the old Diesel boats... Hot, black, strong and bitter, with a soupcon of Diesel oil and a whisper of sewer gas if the drain cock [EDIT: Someone censored the word rhyming with "DOCK", the proper name for a type of plumbing valve. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???"] was...