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One of my friends actaully had to audicity to post this on facebook and I qoute "Privatize Amtrak. That will make it more efficient, and do away with accidents like what happened a few days ago." I couldn't resist and tore him a new one. One of his responeses was and I quote "You have a...

Glad I got to ride the Canadian in its unadultrated form.

...and so it begins.

Have a prior commitment, so I will be unable to attend any events this year.

Everytime Ive ridden lunch has been by reservation.

The sad fact is it takes a disaster before people notice and become concerned about something.

Oddly enough for passengers traveling between Seattle and Spokane that would actually be a nicer arrival time.

I'm assuming you mean the Pullman Rail Journeys Iowa Pacific operates. I actually did a test booking, and depending on when you book an upper berth in an open section costs less than an Amtrak roomette.

Frankly I'd avoid the Empire Builder at all costs right now.

I've ridden the CS a number times, never encountered this, well except when they were wine tasting for a fee to coach passengers. On my last trip they made pretty adamant announcements that PPC was for sleepers ONLY.

Amtrak acquired dome cars from the predecessor US roads, 7 domes were sold to Canada years ago, but were never used. All domes currently on VIA are ex Canadian Pacific.

Spare or bad ordered equipment would be my guess.

90% of my travel has been coach and I'm fine with that. Longest though WAS-SEA.

Superliners can't run into NYP so I don't see how that would work.

I don't think most passengers would share that view.

That's a slippery slope, could end up with another Sunset east situation.

The cars were actually rebuilt from SP commuter cars by Colorado Rail Car specifically for the movie.

I was once told that by an LSA that the train can hit 83 (on 79mph track) before automatic breaking kicks in.

At this point if I were traveling through from Chicago to Seattle/Portland or vice versa I would opt to take the CZ to SAC and then CS up to SEA/PDX instead of the EB.

A joke my great grandfather used to tell (station agent on the Great Northern) passed down through the family. A passenger arrives at the station, and sees the a train arriving and says "trains on time today", the agent says "yeah but that's yesterday's train"