Sam;I was very surprised to see a Railfone in the business class section of #43 two weeks ago.
It was a very cool idea 20 years ago -- I used the DB equivalent of Railfone on one of their IC trains to get a hotel room in Munich for the night -- but it seems that cellphones have put the Railfone out to pasture.
I've seen no news regarding Regionals, but Wi-Fi is supposed to be coming to Acela this year, along with the faux-leather seats for the First Class cars.Hopefully Amtrak will invest that money used to maintaining Railfone into putting in a Wi-Fi system on all NEC trains.
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