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Care to illuminate that comment? Not that I totally disagree with you, but I'd like to better understand your comment.

They MIGHT have been a good idea in the beginning, but the portions are skimpy and the "cooking" - reheating is uneven. This last weekend (Wed - Monday)I had the "beef" and the "pasta". the "Beef" was fair, the potatoes were brown on the periphery and cool in the middle. THe pasta was mushy...

It was a lower fare than coach. The ticket referenced our room. I don't remember the terminology used at the time, other than it was not a coach ticket, she was added as a pax in our room and was granted meal (if you can call tha crap a meal) privileges. Call it what you wish.

Wonderful! Be sure you get a compliment about this agent to AMTRAK. They really seem to like getting attaboys. We complimented our CSA (we got the same one up and back DAL-CHI), and she said she had gotten recognition from management.

Sorry, I was there. My original ticket was unchanged. My granddaughter's ticket was notated and had the room designation on it. My ticket for the two of us was unchanged. Our original fare remained the same. There was a fare collection for my granddaughter's ticket, which had a different locator...

I believe you have been misinformed, unless something has changed. They certainly emailed one to me, I printed it out my very own personal self. And she had it on the app in her phone. When I added my Granddaughter to my 2 adult ticket in a bedroom last year DAL-CHI-DAL, I called AGR. They said...

Truer words have never been said. I remember some years ago when the normally excellent dining car service (on a Northbound Crescent) set out paper plates and plasticware including cups, saying that "AMTRAK" had changed from the other "for SAFETY reasons". This lasted a couple of trips. I asked...

I haven't seen a kiosk in years. But ISTR you could use your AMTRAKGuestRewards card or the credit card you used for the purchase to ID yourself. Frankly, I never trusted the things after a couple of unfortunate happenstances. Your best option is to call AmtrakGuestRewards during the day. You...

Is CONO daily now? GREAT! I was referring to an older timetable. Our last trip a couple of weeks ago from CHI-DAL we had a Giordano's Deep Dish. Excellent choice! I forget the name of the sandwich joint to which the guy referred in his YouTube trip report. It seemed special to him. Chicago...

You can find the fares on the AMTRAK website. Be warned - the fares can change minute by minute according to availability and time to train departure. You can check a fare today, and it may change until you actually pay for it. If you decide to upgrade onboard and are fortunate enough to find...

I guess it is a matter of taste. I prefer my food consistently heated all the way through, not cold in the center and dried out at the edges. Nor do I like it all slopped together, with unchewable bits here and there and mush elsewhere. At least with canned stew, you expect everything to be...

Be still, my beating heart! I happen to like the stuff, although my wife refers to it as ALPO. In any case, it certainly would be an improvement over the slop still offered on the Eagle and I guess the Cardinal and the CONO. As I type this we are just out of Marshall headed for Dallas. The...

Switching power supplies have come way down in price, so it's economically sound to use a supply which is frequency agostic and runs from about 90 to 260 volts. Problem is, they introduce a huge amount of interference on the high voltage side, and some even radiate RF noise.

Actually, even the cheapest of duct tape is fine if you remove it when you are through, one or two days isn't going to hurt anything. There's no Sheetrock on the trains... Most folks don't know what true Gaffer's tape is, or where to get it, or want to pay what it costs for a roll. And they call...

Both outlets are fed from the same source, the Head End Power generator in the Engine. Sometimes if there are two engines, the HEP comes from the second engine. It's a fairly clear sinewave, frequency regulation is within 1 Cycle from 60. The only issue with the outlets on the seatback, they...

Actually, it never occurred to me to check the HEP. Next trip I'll take my analyzer along. Now you've piqued my curiosity. With all the cheap backup generators and power converters on the market today, a non Inverter unit generates some pretty nasty power. Those spiky non sine waves can zorch...

Yup. clocks, blowers, etc. designed for US and other locales based on 60 cycle current ran slow in Europe and other areas where the power line frequency was 50 cycles. And the reverse, of course. Accuracy of motor operated clocks, turntables, even tape players depended on the frequency of the...

Guess baby steps are better than no steps.

That's good news. As ever, the Eagle is still being treated as the illegitimate redhaired stepchild. This includes The Sunset, the CONO, and the Crescent?

Thanks, PVD. My specs and stuff are at home and I am at the Puzzle Palace.