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How can you take a peice of Amtrak home with you?(without stealing something, not like I would do that) Besides bying a cap or something from the snack bar, did you know that sometimes when you turn on your car's A/C it may have the scent of Amtrak's air fresheners or whatever Amtrak uses in there coaches to make that scent, any way some of those A/C systems or air fresheners on the market can match that scent, and every day when you enter your car, you get reminded of taking your seat in an AmfleetII car! Pretty cool no, plus all the other stuff you might find: Amtrak licens plate frames, Amtrak tin signs, railroad artwork,ect.
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What I want is someone who can duplicate the smell of the old streamliners. Now they smelled like REAL trains. Superliners just don't smell right to me.
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I'd go a little farther back than that. There was a time, long before my own, when many Pullmans smelled of stained mahogany that lined the bulkheads, intensified by steam heat. Walk through after the porter turned the beds down, and you had the smell of fresh linnens added to the mix.
Put that in a bottle, and I'll buy it.
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Don't ask me why, but some of the largest and oldest train stations (particularly in the East) seem to have retained that streamliner smell -- or at least the ghost of it.
It's an odd effect that comes and goes, and probably depends on the relative humidity, or whatever. But more than once, I've walked into Philadelphia's 30th Street Station, New York's Grand Central Terminal, or (oddly enough) the current Penn Station, taken a whiff, and could have sworn that both the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads were still in business.
For me, it's like stepping inside a Budd coach during the summer of 1959.
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I've often wondered what air freshener Amtrak uses in it's coaches as my luggage usually smells like the inside of an Amfleet Coach for a few days after the trip ends! Whatever it is, I've only smelled it on Amtrak and nowhere else...
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I got a package of Soap, a wash cloth, and shampoo, and consitioner on the Coast Starlight, still got it
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