A review of the Amtrak's Coast Starlight train that links Seattle with Los Angeles.
"Do all Amtrak trains have to be cut from the same cloth? Why, for instance, cant some carry lounge space exclusively for sleeping-car passengers, as was the case in the pre-Amtrak days when private railroads operated the nation's passenger trains? These are questions I'd pondered since the 1970's, when the last vestiges of holdover individuality (such as the Super Chief's 'Pleasure Dome' lounge) finally disappeared into the bland but modestly tasty stew that has been the Amtrak of recent decades."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
FULL STORY: All Aboard! The Coast Starlight
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