electricron wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:00 pm Never-the-less, there are fewer and fewer places on an Amtrak train to socialize at all. There used to be lounges, smoking and smoke free, where you could socialize voluntary. Four playing Bridge overnight at a cafe table, someone breaking out a guitar in the smoking lounge, watching a movie in the observation lounge, etc. Today the tables are full of people trying to surf the web on their laptops, notepads, and phones. No one seems to want to share their trip with anyone else. That’s what is wrong with public transit today, and why airlines and Amtrak treats us as cattle squeezing as many of us as possible into the smallest possible space. I hope that Amtrak will not scrap their Superliner sightseer lounge cars anytime soon, because that is just about the only place left to socialize on their trains anymore.I agree. I guess I was born in the wrong era! This is more my style!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Td9DDLp_JQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJf4eMhass
But hey, that applies to commercial aviation as well!
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