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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Amtrak/Enhanced Western Service
Message-ID: <636@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 22:47:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 22:47:57 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: This is an enhancement?

railroad@ucbvax.ARPA writes:
> From: Chuck.Weinstock@cmu-sei.arpa

> Chicago, May 1: Passengers traveling on Amtrak's Southwest Chief between
> here and Los Angeles this summer will be experiencing a new enhanced service
> which could be extended later to all of Amtrak's long-distance Western
> trains.
...
> The train's two-level Superliner sightseer-lounge car, which is equipped
> with big, wraparound, picture windows for viewing the route's magnificent
> scenery, is also the train's center of social activity.  Here, the "Indian
> Country" guide will give a description of the sites passed between Gallup
> and Albuquerque, N.M., ... short movies will be shown through the morning for
> children and full-lenght features in the evening.  There will be bingo in
> the early afternoon and a "Chief's Round up" hospitality hour  ...
> Taped music of a regional nature will be played between other events in the
> lounge, as well as in the dining car, and passengers in sleeping car
> compartments may turn it on if they wish. ...

And if what you wish is to sit quietly and view the route's magnificent
scenery through the big, wraparound picture windows, well, you can just
find yourself another railway.

Mark Brader
Actually, I liked the scenery on the Denver-Oakland route better.