Back in college I took it from Michigan to Texas. It was a complete nightmare.
The dining car did not work, so you could only eat junk food and crap. They basically just keep loading up the train with booze the whole way. On the way back, it was more of the same with a long ass delay in San Antonio because they re-routed us from Dallas, then about half way to Chicago the last few cars literally fell off the train or became uncoupled. We had to craw into Union Station at like 5-10 miles an hour if that, for what must have been a good 4 hours if not longer. Shit was nuts.
They offered all of us some $300.00 Amtrak voucher, to which most people including myself said no way in hell. There was some guy buying them all up for pennies on the dollar. Dude must have literally bought ten thousand of them.
This happened back in '95 or '96 I believe. I have not rode them since.
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