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Well, consider for a moment that Prohibition was a successful Constitutional amendment- for it to pass, there had to be popular support, not only in Congress, but in state legislatures as well.I would suspect that railroads reacted the same way to Prohibition that they react to smoking bans now.  Alcohol was seen as the cause of a lot of bad things- crime, divorce, a breakdown in "traditional family values"- and an easy target for the righteous.  So the idea of Carrie Nation sitting right behind you in the diner is probably not as wild as you think.  Try lighting up on an aircraft, or a train, or even a bus, and you will get a reaction.  I suspect that you would have gotten the same reaction on a train if you were obnoxiously, publicly, drunk.I am not naive- but to suspect that conductors routinely provided booze to even the most wealthy passengers traveling to Chicago from Hollywood is sort of like implying AMTRAK conductors would provide cocaine to Robert Downey Jr. or Dennis Hopper.  I would suspect that the passengers carried their own booze, and so long as they were not obnoxious, trainmen looked the other way.
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