Well I kind of want to ride the Empire Builder out West but the main issue holding me back is the restroom issue. Now don’t get me wrong, I can tolerate some pretty nasty outhouses and you know how the toilet thing works when your in the Army…they hand you a shovel and roll of toilet paper. However, when I am paying a first class rail fare, really should get better than that.
When I tell them about the ordor which they can also smell themselves they said they will inform the conductor and the conductor will inform maintenence at our next extended stop (if it happens to be St. Louis). Maintenence does nothing usually. It’s like that old LIFE CEREAL Commercial with the Mikey character “I’m not going to touch it…you touch it… I’m not touching it, I don’t get paid enough for that”.
What I would also like to know and I am curious about is why the CZ merits a special crew to keep the toilets clean. If I had to guess it is probably a specific state they traverse that has stricter compliance guidelines.