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Does the Parlor Car or Lounge Car have board games that you can borrow to play with while on a trip?
For example, if a passenger wanted to get into a game of Chess with another passenger in either the Parlor Car or Lounge Car, does Amtrak carry games for use or does one have to bring his/her own game aboard if he/she wants to play.
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Amtrak does have some select board games for those first class passengers in the parlor car. I am not sure just exactly which games, but i do know that they are seldom used.
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You'll want to bring your own games. That's what I've done in the past - bringing my own cards and Monopoly game. It helps to pass the time. Some trains may vend Amtrak playing cards, but don't count on it.
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Speaking of Amtrak playing cards, I made shure to get some since Amtrak has decided to cancel there line of Coast Starlight soviniors(if thats how its spelled)
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Jonathon, a suggestion for your Christmas list: a dictionary!!! ;-) Souvenir
Some trains organise entertainment in the afternoon. I've had a few games of bingo before now. I've also heard of a quiz happening, although I didn't join it.
Geoff M.
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God one geoffm! lol, he speeled "soviionrs" HAHA
AMTRAK has alot of board games! Dont pack your bags with board games! But you can only have accesz to these if your on the Coast Starlight and in a sleeper!
Anton
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A very nice couple I met at dinner this September on the Empire Builder (returning to MN from their wedding at Crater Lake), said they had a board game called "Empire Builder".
It involved building a railroad. Has anyone out there heard of it?
And Geoffm: I am also amused by the creative spelling on this board, but I can't resist asking you if your dictionary has 'organise' in it? -lol. Can the computer savvy youth of today survive without spell check?
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I've played Empire Builder a few times. It takes awhile to play, so it's an all day game. It involves drawing one's railroad across the North American continent, while shipping goods from cards that are drawn at the beginning of the game.
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I have a game called "Rail Baron," which sounds a lot like "Empire Builder," but I haven't played it for several years. I have often thought of taking it on my train trips, but I typically spend most of my time on my trips following my route maps and taking videos of the scenery. With "Rail Baron," you choose a railroad and roll dice to see where you are going, you collect money at the end of each trip, and you pay rent if you use someone's rail lines that aren't your own, and you pay for the use of someone else's lines.
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there are no parlor cars anymore just the lounge area below the observation car which is usually a dump manned by an employee who opens the lounge whenever he/she pleases and is usually unfriendly and bored. if your thinking of parlor cars of times past you will be greatly dissapointed not only by the lounge pit but by the entire low life amtrak environment. my train riding reaches back to the 40's. believe me those times are gone forever although the dining car is making slow progress from styro foam to reheating prepared meals.
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Traveler, The Coast Starlight runs the parlour car the lounge cars on the other trrains are fine; I enjoyed them. Geoff: nothing wrong with the American spelling. The British spelling is not superior to the American in any sense. WHy on earth spell 'centre' or 'colour'? To Americans, it's illogical. Posts: 171 | Registered: May 2002
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Sutton - I never stated any superiority one way or the other between US and British spelling. Somebody asked why I spelt that way, and that was my answer. As to why "colour" and the like is perceived by you as illogical, well that is lost in the mists of time. Why "sneakers" and not "trainers" (as in training shoes)? Why "coe-lin Powell" and not "Coll-in Powell"? Why say garage as "ger-arge" and not "garidge"? Language is a mystery sometimes. No single language can be better than another.
But the universal language here is trains, whether they be on (rail) ways or roads, so let's get back to that!
Geoff M.
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Geoffm, I owe you an apology since it was I who suggested organise was mispelled. I am a thoroughly embarrassed bloody bloke. If I had consulted my wife or her Oxford English Dictionary she would have corrected me, or maybe even sent me looking for a flat to let. She tends to use "organisize". Run me over with a tyre!
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