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Old Feb 13, 2014 | 6:47 pm
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Originally Posted by jackal
I will miss the wine and cheese receptions, though. Those were always fun and a highlight of the trip, even if the wines were, at best, mid-range selections. And IME, they usually sold out, so at $5 a head (and not free to sleeper passengers), you'd think they weren't a money-pit...
The Coast Starlight's wine-and-cheese reception returned to being offered at no additional charge (and to being solely for sleeping car passengers) a few years ago. I believe the Empire Builder and Lake Shore Limited wine-and-cheese events were always free to sleeping car passengers.
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