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My wife and I had planned a trip with kids on the sleeper cars from Vancouver to San Diego (with some stops along the way). We thought it would be a fun adventure.

After taking a trip to just Tacoma to catch a flight from there she told me "no way". The trains were extremely late, customer service non-existant and on returning the train sat locked up at the Vancouver station for 40 minutes with no announcement and no explanation later.

North American train service is a hot mess.