I see these things in the context of, "If they really wanted to save money, they'd cancel LD service (except in the northeast)." I'm not convinced that any of these amenities attract more revenue than they cost, and in the absence of that I don't have a good argument for keeping them...
According to the train tracker, yesterday's northbound train was passing Jessup GA a half hour ago. It says it is only 7 hours late, but I don't see how that could be... it seems like it has only gone 10% of the way in 12 hours. Though I suppose saying that it is 7 hours late means that they...
I just read something about the Auto Train being canceled for several days sometime in February, due to track work required on a bridge near Sanford. Does anyone have any specific information about that?
There's another aspect of this for me (us). We go on vacation to spend time with each other. To catch up with each other. To share the experience with each other. Strangers don't add to that; sometimes the folks sitting across the table from us in the dining car actually detracted from that. We...
Makes one wonder what happened to "other passengers" to make pursuing good conversation less preferable than going online.
There are always two sides to everything.