Originally Posted by
marcworld
The Carolinean, boarding in Baltimore, northbound to New York.
Same train where I had a similar experience, albeit in Business. Assigned an aisle seat, and basically told, "that's your seat, no moving" despite there often being window seats open. Was told by the car attendant that she wouldn't allow any single travelers into window seats after the early stops "to keep the doubles open." After that, I decided the inflexibility probably rendered BC worthless on a route like that (I can bring and/or buy beverages to make up for the "freebie"), but guess I would likely not have done any better in coach.
I am surprised that the NEC crew (as it would be a different crew from WAS north to NYP), though, would continue to sort passengers like that, since it's effectively just another corridor Regional at that point, northbound.