My personal worst-case Amtrak scenario is that they will conspire to get rid of the Pacific Parlour Cars on the Coast Starlight and justify it by claiming the cars are just too old and too expensive to maintain. With all the cost cutting going on, I just know that the guys with the green eyeshades…
Here are a few random observations while on train #5 from Glenwood Springs to Davis and from Davis to Los Angeles on the Coast Starlight. Great quote from a youngish male passenger on train #5: “No one wants to live near an airport; everyone wants to live near a railroad station.” Train #5…
OK, I will concede that you may be tired of reading about the Pacific Parlour Cars on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight. I suppose part of the reason I write about them is because I really do go out of my way to ride the Coast Starlight—at several hundred dollars of extra expense—just to spend a dozen…
The Coast Starlight was an hour late into Oakland, but by the time I got up this morning, the lost time had been made up. That was the good news. The bad news is there is no Pacific Parlour Car on this train and that wonderful amenity is a very big reason I go…