Amtrak announced it will offer $100 booze vouchers to preferred customers on its line of fancy overnight trains. It’s an effort to bring train travel back to the old days of luxury trips across the country, says Amtrak, and an enticement for people to try the rail company’s high-end GrandLuxe Limited sleeper car service.
Surely you’re thinking what I’m thinking–can’t Metro-North try something like this? Heck, even a ten-spot’s worth of booze would help me sleep on the 6:10.
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GrandLuxe is not part of Amtrak. It’s a separate company whose luxury rail cars are staffed by their own employees. Amtrak just provides the locomotives that pull the cars (because Amtrak is the sole provider of interstate passenger locomotive service in the United States).