It's about time! You know, I'm surprised their offering this as complimentary because I'd have been willing to pay for it. Plus, I'm also surprised that they are able to do this because I remember reading somewhere else, on another discussion group on another website, that the business argument just wasn't there for Amtrak to do this, because it would involve having a series of wireless stations along the track which would suffer a lot of wear and tear from the constantly moving trains, or the prohibitively expensive wimax would need to be used. See the comments from a former Amtrak CIO after the end of the article...
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/..._choice_1.html
But hey, if they have it now, all right!