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.
Posted by littletrain (Member # 2660) on :
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.
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
If you get bored on the train, just do what I do, exsplore!
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by CG96 (Member # 1408) on :
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.
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
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)
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
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.
Posted by CoastStarlight99 (Member # 2734) on :
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
Posted by TwinStarRocket (Member # 2142) on :
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?
Posted by kjkober (Member # 1423) on :
To Geoff's defense [sic]
on his side of the pond, "organise" is properly spelled. It is our pigeonization that has brought about our "zed" inclusion.
Guessing Geoff has a wry sense of humour and chose to include "organise" for that very purpose.
Posted by espeefoamer (Member # 2815) on :
"organise"is the proper British spelling ."Organize is American.
------------------ Trust Jesus,Ride Amtrak.
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
You all lost me???
Whats next, are we going to get into the way I spelled "exsplore"
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by CG96 (Member # 1408) on :
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.
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
I'd like to hear more about this game it sounds good!.CG96, think you could tell us more!
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by RRRICH (Member # 1418) on :
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.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
I am a British citizen living in Britain using the British dictionary! Hence organise and not organize.
Both are fun games, but I've had more practice with Express. Perhaps this thread should be moved to the "Games" forum.
[This message has been edited by CG96 (edited 12-15-2003).]
Posted by traveler (Member # 1415) on :
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.
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
[This message has been edited by JONATHON (edited 12-15-2003).]
Posted by sutton (Member # 1612) on :
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.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
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.
Posted by trainman1 (Member # 1392) on :
Surprised nobody pointed this out...
Amtrak has apparently endorsed British spellings: "Parlour," as in "Pacific Parlour Car," is the British spelling of "parlor."
Posted by JONATHON (Member # 2899) on :
Just for the record ITS SOUVENIR!!!
------------------ JONATHON D. ORTIZ
Posted by TwinStarRocket (Member # 2142) on :
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!
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
No problem - I assumed you thought I was American!
