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I'm with you 100% except for the "over exaggerated" assessment as I never believed anything but the best about traveling by rail until my own surreal and cartoonesque travel nightmare. AMTRAK is being murdered slowly but surely by a lack of funding, under staffing, stubborn adherence to outdated...

I am truly touched. I've been impressed with much on this forum....moderators that really moderate, people with intelligent expressions of their thoughts, and posters that actually apologize when they feel they've gone overboard. I never would have found this board if I hadn't had the problem I...

Thank you. These points I completely understand and I applaud your efforts. I appreciate your answer.

And minimally polite you remain.

Wanted to tell you all here on this forum that I appreciate the dialogue you've afforded me and some of the answers I've gotten here. You've all helped me pull my thoughts together over some difficult issues. ^_^ -_- I need to ask though, and mean no offense by this, but are there alot of...

And minimally polite you've been indeed! Your personal awarenes of two isolated cases of diabetics and their handling of this life threatening condition gives you authority enough to judge? My mother is diabetic and not able to easily handle her blood sugars and after working for 11 years as...

I do appreciate Alan, your explanation of the chain of command on board that is involved in contacting local authorities, but these actions appropriate or not, are based on the assessment of the conductor, and from my experience I'm suggesting a lack of ability of overworked conductors to make...

I didn't say they should spend money for one extra person to hang out and wait for the occasional problem, I said they should have enough staff on board to spread the work out more sanely. What I saw was workloads stretched to the max, filthy bathrooms with nobody to clean them, Amtrak...

That's what I'm saying about funding and staffing cuts to Amtrak that create such situations. With a more reasonable number of staff onboard than the present budget and current legislation allows perhaps somebody would have had the time to notice and rectify the problem sooner. If there was even...

On board an already very late and full to the brim train out of Chicago on the eastward portion of my trip, there was an otherwise well dressed older man with very very gnarly feet minus a big toe, no shoes or socks, making no sense and was walking up and down the aisles of every car trying to...

No, I didn't "conclude" anything but by the use of all caps and a "let it die" sentiment expressed twice in response to a discussion about passengers with life threatening conditions, most rational people could "almost suspect" a desire expressed for Mr Sims and I to just die. Kind of irrational...

Lucifer here and in what way do you believe I do not take "personal responsibility" and for what? I was not drunk. I was not beligerant. I was not "smelly" as per the conductor's assessment as noted by a majority of the passengers and by the people who picked me up at the airport. I was not...

In my case I was travelling on a disability discounted ticket and carrying the required documentation that I was never asked to present even when the trouble began and I noted my AIDS diagnosis or when the ordeal ended with me declaring "I can't believe you're throwing an AIDS patient off the...

Hello....Lucifer here. "Not an Amtrak Fan" is my partner of sorts and was indeed posting from my computer last p.m. He's usually a very "let's not make waves" kinda guy and for him to get as upset as he's been over what I was put through by Amtrak, is a good measure of how wrongly I was treated...

Please note that I had my letter of diagnosis with me and with my tickets as that's what I was instructed to do when I bought the tickets with a disability discount.

Amen! Exactly what should have happened! The conductor though seemed more into punishing me for my very existence than to alleviate any problems and in fact was completely trying to stir up trouble by trying to insist that the other staff members back her up. After she first wanted me to remain...

Yes. That's exactly what was happening! It felt like a snowball rolling out of control suddenly after I'd really been enjoying the trip with all it's ups and downs before the new conductors came on. The female conductor was more into trying to get support against me than in trying to solve the...

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Thanks but I am soured on rail travel forever. I think if I had had a traveling companion things would have been different and although there were plenty of people on the train supporting me and outraged at the way the conductors were treating me, I doubt they'll come forward. Sad state of the...

Thanks and if anybody had even slightly been bothered I would have immediatly stopped. Most of us musicians want to please the crowd, not alienate them. Thanks again.