First I hope you all liked the title. I worked hard on it, even though it’s more truthiness than truth.
The Points Guy website—the heart and soul of trying to cream money off you by successfully getting you hooked on even more credit cards—just keeps writing new posts about trains. Which, as you may know, don’t fly through the air, and—when it comes to American ones—are not exactly famous for their luxury cabins.
This guy really is becoming obsessed with Amtrak. It’s good to see. Maybe Amtrak will start to give him free seats in economy or something lol. I’m not going to lie, Amtrak’s cross-country trains are extremely roomy, even in the cheap seats. And if you get two, it’s basically a bed.
But I digress.
I'm also amused by The Points Guy’s description of these new Acela (East Coast) trains as having “fancy new interiors”:
Brendan Dorsey/The Points Guy
Fancy as in, “strongly resembling economy class in a plane”?* Or fancy as it, “Wow, look, a footrest!”?* Or perhaps even, fancy as in, “I can’t believe it’s not plastic!”?*
That seat material looks pretty fake vinyl plasticky, though.
Also: I hate these footrests in all trains. Am I the only one?
Perhaps my favourite sentence from The Points Guy’s article though:
“Amtrak’s new cars will hold 378 passengers — hopefully making the trains less crowded. Current capacity is 304.”
Because that makes sense.
One gets the feeling this “trains are so awesome” article was written just to keep the weekly quota of “things you can write about when basically no one is flying” above absolute zero.
*Oxford English Dictionary definitions of “Fancy”. True story