JoeG wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 2:26 pm
Hopefully the Auto Train will retain some amenities, and I won't care if it's a couple of hours late because CSX decided to run a freight train.
Mr. Grossman, so far as I'm concerned, the Auto Train amenities are gone.
Based on my likely final trip, Voyage 24 or 52(the day Kobe Bryant was killed), the Short Ribs were "edible", but Sky Chefs does a far better job for United Airlines to and from overseas.
But the utter indignity of having a waiter making rounds with two milk cartons saying "you get one complimentary glass (should say "plastic"); Red or White", is what they did.
The pre-departure Happy Hour is long gone. At one time, that was a "tasting" when various Virginia winemakers would be aboard to explain their varietals and offer tastes in a reasonably civilized environment. To my knowledge, there is no longer a Sleeper Lounge. The 3350X car is there, but is an "overflow Breakfast Diner".
So I think they have done a job."rationalizing" the Auto Train- and for $1500 to save me 400 miles of driving and no time whatever, "just not worth it" anymore.