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Oops! Life in the Lounge Car Isn’t Always Relaxing
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Oops! Life in the Lounge Car Isn’t Always Relaxing

ByJim Loomis 01/01/200909/06/2014

Last week, as Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr was headed toward Reno, Nevada, a boulder dislodged from the side of one of those mountain passes in the Sierras and rolled into the side of the train. Evidently, it hit the lounge car, because that car had to be removed from the consist before the Zephyr continued…

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