One thing I remember about the dining car is that if you’re traveling alone you sit with other people in a 4-person booth. It’s been at least one way to get awa

One thing I remember about the dining car is that if you’re traveling alone you sit with other people in a 4-person booth. It’s been at least one way to get away from staring at a screen/window alone and talk with people you may not normally encounter. This said, maybe Amtrak is trying to optimize for the people that ride it - from my west coast anecdata it usually skewed to lower-income people needing to get somewhere on short notice (where air prices got too much), or worked for the govt in a way that it the price was discounted. (And to a smaller extent thieves, adventurers, photographers, and people afraid of flying) Thinking aloud, it’d be interesting if Amtrak could pair with a food delivery app so folks doing a long distance trip could order something from a midway stop.