Well that great guys! Just when I got all excited about the "creepy conductor" animation, he's gone from the Amtrak website! Now, I'm not going to blame the whiners for the disappearance of the animation. No, I blame the "hours of service" rules. I bet the poor little fellow simply outlawed after 12 hours on duty and has to get 10 hour of rest before he can work the website again. Yes, I'm so disappointed, but safety comes first.
Seriously, I suspect that if Amtrak users were having issues with the site, the animation might have been pulled. Some people might scoff, but Microsoft is apparently toying around with the same sort of idea again, after having made the first initial try at an animated interface back in the mid 90s.