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Now that the Three Rivers uses Viewliner sleepers, I think my husband and I might try it sometime to go to Chicago...it's more direct from where we live than the LSL or Capitol Limited. Here are my questions: 1. I understand that the Three Rivers does not have a dining car, but does the sleeper fare include any meals in the cafe car? 2. Do the sleeper car attendants still provide the same level of service as trains like the LSL? 3. What kind of food is available in the cafe car? Is there more variety than at the snack bar in a lounge car? The reason I ask all of this is that I do not want to take the Three Rivers if we're going to be stuck with lousy packaged danishes for breakfast, or those miniscule pizzas for lunch or dinner.
rresor Member # 128
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I haven't ridden the Three Rivers, but I made a sleeping car trip on the "Twilight Shoreliner" last month. I wondered, as you do, what being in a sleeper meant when there was only a cafe car. What it meant, as it happened, was that I could have any food items I wanted from the cafe. Dinner was a nice salad and a roast beef sandwich. I got off in PHiladephia, so didn't have breakfast, but they've usually got "AmMcMuffins" (hot ham, egg, cheese sandwiches), fruit juices, and similar stuff.
Each Viewliner has an attendant, and he or she keeps the coffee hot, the ice stocked, and milk, soda, and fruit juices available.
20thCenturyLimited Member # 1108
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The "cafe car" and the snack bar are the same thing.
It's too bad they couldn't put a full service diner back on that route, now that it has a sleeper again. Then the "Three Rivers" could be called the "Broadway Limited" again.
[This message has been edited by 20thCenturyLimited (edited 11-20-2001).]
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