Made it into Washington, DC nearly 2 hours and 10 minutes late. That's even with the padding going into DC. Sigh. As soon as I disembarked off of the Capitol Ltd, I rushed to Guest Services to see if I could get on the Silver Star, which was to depart at 3. After being rerouted to the Ticket Counter, waiting for an agent, agent hem-hawing about changing an AGR ticket, going to talk to a supervisor, dawdling back, I got my ticket for the Star and ran to Gate J24 where I had a nice view of passing Amfleets rolling below the escalator.
I Dropped my bags off at the Metro Lounge and enjoyed my next 4 hours in DC.
The rest of the trip was pretty non eventful. After a 21 hour trip that took 23 hours and an 18 hour trip that took 20 hours, the Silver Meteor was the shining "star" of the trip. It left on time and never left a station a second late through to Savannah. That was actually a bit of a bummer, because I was hoping for breakfast. I was awakened by my SCA at 6 AM, took my 79 MPH shower and headed off to the Diner at 6:25. After being curtly reminded that Breakfast doesn't start until 6:30, I waited until that time than instantly ordered a French Toast to go. Train pulled into SAV about 6:38 or so. My SCA had my bags in the vestibule, I had my breakfast in hand and my car was where I left it. I hopped in my car, poured syrup on my Railroad French Toast, and enjoyed breakfast. When I was done eating, I watched Number #97 pull off into the Dawn of a Savannah morning.
Best part is that because I was in a sleeper, I woke at 6, showered, had breakfast, and still made it in to work about the same time I do every morning from home. Didn't have to take another 1/2 day off to rest and clean up.
All crew were professional and polite. With the exception of the breakfast LSAs who refused to exceed expectations by sitting on their rump until their time card is punched, every one was tremendously accomodating.