Recent content by veririaa

OK to recap I work on-board Amtrak trains. One of my family members is also kinda high up there in management. Basically, he told me how Amtrak got their money for this year. Amtrak signed a 'contract' of sorts -- that states if Amtrak's food service and sleeping car service can't make enough...

Amtrak charges sleeping car passengers for their meals XD If they didn't, there would be no reason to have a dining car, since it wouldn't be guaranteed that the sleeping car passengers would eat in there. Also, I wouldn't work on the trains if I didn't make the money I make. It's no where...

Aww I'm sorry then. Can't say I didn't try though XD

If there was, perhaps Amtrak could get money quite easily from the government XD

I can't say for sure how often the menu's are changed; however, since I have started working onboard the Empire Builder (since October) the menu has changed twice now. Back when I worked on the Texas Eagle, our menu almost never changed XD But then again that train does get treated like the...

I know there were mudslides on the 25th that had just happened that day when we left Portland on the Empire Builder. Perhaps service hadn't be restored yet on the 28th? Apparently, my train was the ONLY train that would operating that day at least (25th). It sucked having to work on...

I hope this is OK to post here...I created a live journal community for other on-board train workers. It is located at http://www.livejournal.com/community/crew_in_blue/ and I named it 'Crew in Blue' I mainly created it because there seems to not be any place online for on-board crew to talk...

I have been an LSA for Amtrak for two years now. What are you wanting information about, specifically? I know that they are always hiring for LSA's out of Chicago, it would seem. They just had ANOTHER class of LSA's.