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This may be too late for you, but I've gotten on the CZ in Princeton several times and there are always plenty of open window seats.

There may be a limited number of coach passengers opting for dining car meals if all they know is that it's $25 or $45 or whatever. Unless they look at a menu to see what the choices are, they'll just be thinking about the cost. A lot of people bring food, and won't bother to search for a menu...

I love how they included a bullet point for issuing a "successful press release."

Are the requirements to discontinue a route so laborious that they'd rather keep it just "suspended" for 17 years than actually put an end to it? They killed off the Three Rivers just a few years before and that didn't seem to cause them too much effort. Or have they just kind of forgotten...

This video on You Tube shows a train with a small business class section that has lie-flat seats. (I think you can lie flat on them.It never actually shows anybody using them.). That section starts at 1:50 into the video. Hong Kong to Beijing by High-Speed Train

Is that route mostly single track?

As others have said, this type of proposal has happened plenty of times in the past. This time, killing off the system probably has a bit of a politically-bent, since the president's nickname literally includes the word Amtrak.

Good point. This might be expecting a lot out of Amtrak, but since we're kind of just theorizing here--perhaps a passenger could place the order ahead of time on their phone and put their credit card in, and it would just put a hold for a specified amount. Then if they actually had the meal...

These Russian sleeper designs seem okay to me, but I can see why a lot of folks in North America wouldn't go for it--especially if you were always stuck up in the higher bunk. It seems like all sleeper discussions on AU revert back to a "Bring Back Slumbercoaches" vs. "Import Airline-style...

Wow--never saw that before. Not as good as a full SSL car, but it kind of makes sense for shorter routes, and definitely beats no food service at all. Thanks for sharing.

So, I'm kind of curious about the Superliner Coach with a snack bar downstairs. Is than an official thing, or was it like a coach-baggage car with a makeshift snack bar set up?

Haven't seen the ads on Tubi, but it sounds like the TV ads that run every day on the morning news on NBC 5 in Chicago. They're 10-second spots, I think.

Something like that would be great to have in a cafe or a vending machine.

Benjamin Dierker is the director of public policy at the Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure. Benjamin Dierker should know that if any Innovation and Infrastructure goes through anywhere, taxpayers will be on the hook.

Long live the cafe car. But, out of curiosity--what exactly are the vending machines like on the trains that have them, or will have them? Are they just full of things like candy bars and chips? I have seen some machines with more robust options out there, but they usually require a microwave...

No sightseer on the Chief is pretty depressing. But, these are interesting times.

I was just looking through the old timetables on timetables.org, thinking there might be something in there to clarify it. Not positive, but the October 1986 timetable makes no mention of meals in their ad for First Class Service, but the April 1987 one lists "Tasty Meals" as one of the "very...

Amtrak (like almost every other business right now) needs to successfully hire and retain employees. Fewer trains would be cancelled, more equipment could be serviced and upgraded, and staff might be in better moods during the trip, which would lead to more passengers saying, "Maybe again."

Both times I rode the Builder we were pretty close to on time. The stops at Minot and Havre were long enough to roam around the station and get something at the vending machines or whatever. Seems like somebody was selling ice cream outside at the Havre stop, but it's been five years so I might...

Yes, when i did a sleeper-to-coach trip a few years back, I called AGR and they handled it for me. Everything worked out fine, but In the end, I was so bummed out about giving up my sleeper for a crowded coach that I haven't tried it again. I'll just ride in coach the whole way, so I have a...