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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Henry Kisor: [QB] Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Smitty, I knew about the Snuggery, but I'd already had lunch. Didn't know you could get the signal below it in the lounge -- how did you find that out? When my wife and I go out on No. 5 in March, we'll lunch in the Snuggery and continue our Internet surfing in the lounge. As for the Cross Country Cafe, maybe I'm just too easily pleased. The layout seemed fine to me, but there IS a Sightseer Lounge on the Texas Eagle, and maybe that made the difference in serving efficiency. I thought the CCC cushions and backrests better (have a bum back) than those in the conventional diners. Maybe that's because they're newer and not quite so rump-sprung. Regarding the food, it was OK, only OK, but that is the price we pay for long distance trains these days. We sure do not take trains for the culinary experience anymore. (The food seemed to be the same that was being served in the Sunset's conventional diner. Maybe not as many choices.) I may have run into that waiter-from-hell once. He was nasty toward ignorant diners who tried to be helpful and hand him their empty plates. Let's hope he's no longer employed by Amtrak. "Hang Fire" is the fourth novel in a mystery series about a Lakota-born sheriff in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This one involves serial murder by muzzle-loader. I had to buy a flintlock pistol replica for research. Had great fun learning how to shoot it -- when it didn't result in a hang fire. Made a glorious bang. As for sleeping on the rocking train, I guess those 16 trips in 18 months I took for "Zephyr" did the trick. My dad told me how he got used to sleeping at his battle station in a heaving sea during World War II and had to learn how to sleep in a landbound bed all over again. By the way, the second installment (shooting pictures with Carl Morrison) is up. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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