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gokeefe wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:06 am I'm impressed that they're marketing it as heavily as they are.
CharlieK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:53 pm Complimentary room service provided by your Sleeping Car attendantThanks for sharing this.
SouthernRailway wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:44 amI've gotten room service in the past and seen others do so. So yes this "new service" is basically the same. My guess however is they're emphasizing this over actually serving you in the diner. My guess if you eat in the diner it's basically "here's your reheated disposable platter. Enjoy your overpriced reheated meal, but don't expect traditional wait service."CharlieK wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:53 pm Complimentary room service provided by your Sleeping Car attendantThanks for sharing this.
Not directed at you, but a general question: hasn't Amtrak always offered "complimentary room service"? If so, does this announcement mean that sleeping car attendants will actually provide the service? Without growling and making up stories about why they can't do it? One time when I asked for room service on the Crescent for dinner, the attendant told me that it wasn't her job to go wait in line for me, and refused to.
mterrell wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 5:33 pm I'd love one day for something to exist like Memphis - Nashville - Chattanooga - Atlanta - Macon - Savannah. That may be slightly too long for a feasible day trip but I wonder if 700~ miles could be done in like a 6am to 11pm schedule between both ends.I just looked at a couple of old timetables to see if anyone actually ran such a train in the past. Neither the L&N nor the NC&St.L seems to have done so; the NC&St.L could get you from Memphis to Atlanta, but not without a change of trains . #5 left Memphis at 7:45 AM and got to Nashville at 1 PM (237 miles); then you had to wait until at least 6:05 for #11, which only ran every third day and got you to Atlanta at 1:30 AM (285 miles); if #11 wasn't running, you had to wait until 9 PM for #3, which made all local stops and arrived at 8:25 AM. This was in 1951.