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That is so sad. My condolences.
Your experience was really unusual. Usually Amtrak is very easy to deal with, has reasonable prices, and the food in the dining car is without exception wonderful.
I hope you give Amtrak another chance.
p.s. I've also had problems with accidental postings and being unable to erase a post that is still in the edit box. Once posted, you can hit the edit button to correct. Welcome to AU!
I hope you give Amtrak another chance.
p.s. I've also had problems with accidental postings and being unable to erase a post that is still in the edit box. Once posted, you can hit the edit button to correct. Welcome to AU!
Always been amazed at how quickly the staff remembers which passengers are in the sleepers on any given trip. I was once sitting in the PPC on the CS when a young man comes from the diner, through the PPC, and heads to the sleeper section.
The PPC LSA checked him out as he passed the bar and then picked up the IC. Within a minute or two the Conductor and AC headed to the sleepers. In short order, they came back through the PPC, accompanied by the SCA. with the young man headed back to the coach section. Never knew the outcome.
The PPC LSA checked him out as he passed the bar and then picked up the IC. Within a minute or two the Conductor and AC headed to the sleepers. In short order, they came back through the PPC, accompanied by the SCA. with the young man headed back to the coach section. Never knew the outcome.
In the early days, I occasionally would offer to show our room to nice people I met in the dining car. I got away with it once or twice, but after having an alert attendant stop me several times, I stopped trying. I just had to suggest they look at the nice pictures on the web page.
If you ask your SCA, they'll usually let you show someone your room, ( especially in the daytime)and even some Conductors in the pre-COVID days,would let interested Coach Passengers tour the Sleeping Car if they expressed an interest in Upgrading.
I saw a video on Youtube of an SCA (I think anyway) showing a young kid (7-9?) in coach a tour of the entire sleeping car and during COVID. This was on the Starlight, it was when there was a service disruption which caused it stop at Sacramento, I think due to snow conditions.
I do remember once on the Crescent, I was playing cards in the diner or whatever car with other passengers, they got kinda rowdy and I was going back to my sleeper and was stopped by Amtrak employee who said, you can’t go back there because you don’t belong back there, my SCA saw me, he was awesome, Mr Rob, and he informed that employee that I belonged there, that employee got really nice then. I loved Mr Rob, he was the best and just there when needed like he just knew. Awesome
