"If you’ve got 12 hours to kill and don’t mind having your ear talked off by retired train enthusiasts, there’s always Amtrak’s Coast Starlight, a slow and beautiful route bordered by beach and mountains—and the microwaved hot dogs aren’t bad. (A retired train enthusiast told me, however, that one Amtrak train he rode hit a pickup truck and killed the driver and was stalled for half a day without air-conditioning. So.)"
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/my-waking-nightmare-aboard-a-startup-companys-sleeper-bus-2