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Please provide me any positive or negative feedback on the CZ from Chicago to Emeryville. Especially concerned about, Roomette's, Food, Bathrooms, sightseeing quality, movies ratings, etc.
Do you eat in the dining room or the roach coach (sightseer car's lower level snack bar)? While a bit pricey, (not outrageous or unreasonable) the food served in the dining room is excellent. The snack bar serves prepackaged snacks and sanwiches similar to those you would find in your local Circle K or gas station mini mart; those who do not care for them are welcome into the dining room to purchase full high-quality meals if traveling in coach.davlor said:...food is terrible
The commentary is provided by docents from the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento and they provide narration on the Zephyr, in both directions daily year-round between Sacramento, Calif. and Reno, Nev. The only time you won't have the narration onboard the train is if the westbound Zephyr is running extremely late and the docents decide to take an Amtrak California Thruway Motorcoach back to Sacramento instead of waiting for the train. This is usually only the case when the train is 5+ hours late but there isn't a set rule on it.PRR 60 said:During certain times of the year there is historical commentary provided between Reno and Sacramento, but it was nothing to get excited about.
The number has declined over the last decade to about half that number. Twenty freight trains a day can seem like twenty too many though when you have the You Pee Railroad running them, though. Up until about two weeks ago when our Reno train trench was completed it was not uncommon for the You Pee to stop their freight trains in our downtown blocking every one of our major crossings for 45-60 minutes at a time. Their actions and hostile attitude toward our city officials when we tried to come to some kind of solution to avoid using the tracks crossing our downtown streets as a parking lot is what ended up forcing Reno officials to construct the train trench and lower the trains below our city streets. I am confident that the trench would not ahve been necessary or constructed if we had a COMPETENT railroad (such as the BNSF) dispatching and operating the trains through our city.t.winx said:He did however keep saying the railroad ran 30-40 FRIEGHT TRAINS PER DAY!!!
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