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Tell me if you think this would be a good idea. Someone who has worked for a long time (on the Empire Builder) recently told me that before COVID, long distance trains like the Coast Starlight or the Southwest Chief would have up to 500 people on the train every day (sometimes more) including...

Possibly for Mt. Rushmore, but I've looked into it and the tracks that run through Rapid City are not connected to any other track. Those tracks have a dead-end at a factory west of there.

I’ve actually observed a birth on Amtrak. Back in March 2019, I was riding on the California Zephyr from Davis to Glenwood Springs and on the same train, there was a pregnant 19 year old girl riding in the same sleeping car as me that gave birth to a baby on the train. The girl and her boyfriend...

I once took the Southwest Chief #4 from Los Angeles, all the way to Chicago and during the ride as the train was going through Arizona on the morning of Day 2, right after I had breakfast, my stomach began to feel tight and nauseous, so I tried to run to the bathroom, but I didn’t make it. I...