I’m often asked what makes a really good sleeping car attendant on one of Amtrak’s long-distance trains. I really don’t know what Amtrak’s employee manual says, but here’s what I want and almost always get from one of Amtrak’s sleeping car attendants. * * * * Greets me with a warm welcome on the platform…
Traveling in coach is fine for a daytime trip. But just imagine spending the night trying to sleep sitting up, and the person assigned to the seat next to you is a 300 pound biker who hasn’t had a shower for a couple of days. Or maybe there’s a fussy 2-year-old in the seat behind…
Amtrak ordered new Viewliner dining cars months—no, years ago and for some time now, a prototype diner making trial runs has popped up as part of a working consist. In fact, last year the dining car happened to show up on the Lake Shore Limited when I was traveling from Boston to Chicago. But…
I have had countless numbers of delightful encounters with fellow passengers in Amtrak dining cars, many of which I’ve chronicled here. Friday night was no exception as I found myself across the table at dinner time with a couple from the U.K. They we connecting to the California Zephyr and were headed for Wyoming and…