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...
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...