Hard to believe this is an Amtrak train. Shot really captures what passenger rail was like back in the 1970s. Fortunately, we've made progress since...at least on the Keystone Corridor.
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This was an unpleasant place to catch a train in those days- crumbling platforms, no shelter against a cold wind, no rest rooms, etc.
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Fortunately, ENOUGH hardy people DID keep riding this route to support a baseline of demand to build the current Keystone Service on. Made MANY a trip aboard these cars between Lancaster & 30th St. but don't recall EVER having a car that actually HAD a bathroom in it. Not to mention getting hungry and thirsty along the way.
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I wonder if the bathrooms were removed, rather than converted to the proper retention-style type that replaced the old "tube down to the tracks."
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