[The Great RJ]

Amtrak is government run much like the Post Office so what do you expect? I was fortunate to experience train travel in the early 1960s when service was still top notch. I rode the California Zephier to California and back to Omaha on the UP.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I remember good passenger train service from my first ride west in the early 1950s. The train stopped an honked over and over for us to hurry and get aboard.
My mother and I ran from my great grandfather's house in a tiny Iowa town and traveled from there to Seattle. We took a cab to the dock downtown and boarded an MSTS ship for a two week trip across the Pacific to join my dad at his duty station in Yokohama.
It was 63 years ago...