Bringing food / Having food brought to the train

[EB_OBS]

Do local food trucks ever meet the trains?

jb

There used to be an ice cream truck that would meet the Empire Builder in MOT. Not sure if it still does. I haven't been over there in a while.

 

[chakk]

This has been going on in Boston for at least 50 years--ever since Charlie's wife starting handing him a sandwich through the open window of his MTA train daily as it rumbled through the Sculley Square station.

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[gmushial]

This has been going on in Boston for at least 50 years--ever since Charlie's wife starting handing him a sandwich through the open window of his MTA train daily as it rumbled through the Sculley Square station.

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x100 would love to hear more details.

 

[Ispolkom]

Do local food trucks ever meet the trains?

jb

There used to be an ice cream truck that would meet the Empire Builder in MOT. Not sure if it still does. I haven't been over there in a while.

Sadly, neither has the ice cream truck. I haven't seen it since before the 2011 flood.

 

[Ryan]

This has been going on in Boston for at least 50 years--ever since Charlie's wife starting handing him a sandwich through the open window of his MTA train daily as it rumbled through the Sculley Square station.

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x100 would love to hear more details.

I always wondered - if she hands him a sandwich, can't she put a nickel in the bag and let him out? Maybe she didn't want him to come home?

 

[gmushial]

Sounds a bit like the gent on the Boston subway, that never returned...

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Love the idea of a crowd sourced website that maintains a listing of available restaurants and delivery services along with their respective ratings for food quality, freshness, timeliness, etc.

 

[Ryan]

So, Yelp?

 

[gmushial]

So, Yelp?

Would that be sufficiently Amtrak specific? If yelp will provide such, that'll save me from having to write the software. ...