"I Did It Once"; Or Overnight Amtrak Business Travel

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I recently spent 30 hours on an Amtrak train traveling from New York City to Miami. I found the ride to be rough and bumpy, with far too much time spent in a cramped space. But if you value the journey as much as the destination, you might enjoy the ride. .

I'm afraid that Business Insider is known more for its reputation as "click bait" than for its quality of journalism.

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Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 5:30 pm Business Insider

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I recently spent 30 hours on an Amtrak train traveling from New York City to Miami. I found the ride to be rough and bumpy, with far too much time spent in a cramped space. But if you value the journey as much as the destination, you might enjoy the ride. .

I'm afraid that Business Insider is known more for its reputation as "click bait" than for its quality of journalism.

Yeah, click bait articles and low paywall limit. It's basically a photo article.

Here's more clickbait from same:

https://www.insider.com/best-and-worst- ... os-2021-10

This time, same ingredients: Amtrak LD train; young millennial reporter, only difference - Coach.

Someone at another site suggests that Amtrak is "showrunning" these ostensible "reports".

Read; you might even find it enjoyable.

STILL MORE Insider "clickbait":

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-i-w ... ins-2021-7

The more of this "happy talk" this publication circulates, the less credibility it has - at least with me.

Business Insider is owned by Axel Springer, who is parent company over Bild, the longtime German tabloid... so yeah, you might want to consider the source.

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Yeah. I ended up just blocking that (and a few other "publications") from my Google News feed.

Yet another quality write-up of riding the Silver service from NY to FL...

https://news.yahoo.com/spent-60-hours-o ... 00444.html

eolesen wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 12:29 am Yet another quality write-up of riding the Silver service from NY to FL...

https://news.yahoo.com/spent-60-hours-o ... 00444.html

Republished from the Business Insider article. I wish Yahoo News would indicate their article source like NPR does.

They did reference Insider in the fine print.

Well, it looks as if Insider has rounded up another young woman to "say nice things"

https://www.insider.com/surprising-thin ... ss-2021-11

There is no specific reference to the trains she rode; apparently, she sampled both Coach and "Private Room".

One photo of interest; a Sightseer with Upper Level fixed tables. That car was part of the Auto Train "pool" but with the addition of "Cross Country Cafe" (370XX Diner-Lounge) and withdrawal of one #3350X Lounge from each consist leaving one assigned to each set as First Class "overflow Dining" and Lounge, Amtrak wisely reassigned that car.

Need it bear repeating? "If you've seen one Pine Tree, you've seen 'em all".

Seems a well balanced summary to me.
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