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In July I rode the Southwest Chief and the Lake Shore Limited. I will disagree with anyone who thinks we should abandon long distance travel by train. Some are talking as if they want 18 karot gold service for copper prices. On four trains the food was good - not Four Seasons great- but it was wholesome, hot or cold when it should have been and the quantity was fine. Lets face it, with the cut-backs at the end of spring during the funding crisis it's a wonder that there is any food service. Food service was always a money loser. It was provided as a draw to get more passengers to travel. Now every highway and Interstate has a cheap food joint at every opportunity and we think that the train is supposed to be different. They were sending the Chefs to the Culinary Institute of America not too long ago, it was then someone decided to try to put money into the service and it had results. Trains started getting individualized menus with specialty items and it started looking up. Then the cost of this better service started to show and the cost cutting started - with the final straw being the nationalized menu to help economize spending - thank the anti-Amtrak polititians If you want a decent meal you can usually find it in the diner. For those of us who know what regular diner food is like on the road, then you'll know what you'll get. If it's better, then you have a better crew and you should say so. It 's all the thanks they usually hear unless it's the grumbling.
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