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Your Amtrak train is running 24 hours late approaching Gallup, New Mexico. Your holiday crowd of 300 coach and 90 sleeping car passengers are hungry. The last can of Amstew has been opened. Who would *you* call to cater the train, and what would you order? You have a reasonable amount of...

I've had the Amstew. If it isn't Dinty Moore, it is pretty close. I've had far worse chow in the army (MRE, anyone?). Warm and reasonably filling. I've also pulled into Flagstaff xxx hours late. There was a pickup truck with about 300 boxes of KFC and a few cases of Coke. The attendants...

On 9/28, Downeaster train 983 struck a person on the tracks just south of Saco, ME. I would like to compliment the entire train crew for the professional way they handled the tragic incident and the unavoidable three hour delay. I happened to be near the conductor when the engineer called in...

My son Eric and I are on the Lake Shore Limited, on a four night cross country trip from Boston to Portland Oregon, bedrooms all the way. I've taken the California Zephyr many times, so we thought we'd try the Empire Builder, which I last took about 30 years ago. But Amtrak took the EB...