by updrumcorpsguy
With the recent downgrade of the Three Rivers to coach only, I started to think about the big coach-only trains of the pre-Amtrak era: The El Capitan and (I think) The Challenger (I'm sure there were others, but those are the only ones I know of).
What sort of services did these trains offer? Did they have dining cars and lounges? If so, did it offer a more economical level of dining? What about seating in the coach cars? Were they like the current Superliner coaches?
While I think that the idea of a coach-only long-distance train is probably not acceptable to the travelling public (although it would be an improvement over Greyhound) I was curious as to what the former passenger carriers did to lure people onto these trains
What sort of services did these trains offer? Did they have dining cars and lounges? If so, did it offer a more economical level of dining? What about seating in the coach cars? Were they like the current Superliner coaches?
While I think that the idea of a coach-only long-distance train is probably not acceptable to the travelling public (although it would be an improvement over Greyhound) I was curious as to what the former passenger carriers did to lure people onto these trains