The Unair-Conditioned Amtrak Nightmare

september 18, 2002  10:00 am
The Unair-Conditioned Amtrak Nightmare
John Anderson's Amtrak odyssey started with a dream of seeing America "from the rolling level of a train car, solidly planted on earth," he writes in Miami New Times. The Sunset Limited Orlando to Los Angeles dream unravels in packed train stations, derailments, mysterious delays, moving backward, prefab muffins, broken air conditioning and finally a two-day forced layover in San Antonio with Julie the computer.