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Posted by Nilet on Tue Jun 25 20:13:41 2019, in response to Re: Auto Train Question and Acela/NEC Questions, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Jun 25 17:08:41 2019. oh certainly. My early experiences of this were ginger ale at age 11 on the B(est) & O(nly). In the early 50s the all coach Columbian between DC and Chicago had a round end obs bar lounge and a dome coach as well as an excellent diner.Alas, I'm nowhere near old enough to have ridden them— in the early 1950s, my parents hadn't been born yet, let alone me. But round end dome cars still run on the Canadian and I'm sure they manage to get up to 79 at some point. Of course, if you want to ride them today you'll need to shell out $8,000 or ride during off-peak season (or accept "scheduled access" to them during the appointed hours only). I can't speak to the diner— it was excellent in 2008, but had degraded to decent by 2012. I am looking at a trip from Chicago in Sept which is scheduled into LA at 5:35 AM. In a more rider oriented era sleeping car pax would be allowed to remainon board until a more civil hour--not Amtrak today. If you're talking about the Texas Eagle/Sunset Limited, then apparently a more rider oriented era was 2014, when sleeper passengers arriving in Los Angeles at 5:35 were "welcome to occupy their accommodations until 6:30 a.m." though that notation seems to have been scrubbed from the schedule by early 2015. |
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