Joe Hohmann posted:I would pay a lot extra to ride in a observation car. Better yet, one with a platform you could sit on, all the way to Florida. An alternative would be a camera mounted on the engine front, with a live feed going to large screen TVs. The only draw-back to that is seeing the freight you are about to plow into.
Amtrak actually had this on some routes in the 1970s. They had to discontinue it due to the frequency of grade crossing close calls or occasionally an impact.
