This Parlor Car lower level was a theatre and we were allowed to use it before the scheduled movie showing (for kids it was SMURF at 1500). Several passengers sat in for some of our conversations. We didn't, and wouldn't, encroach on fellows trainriders and we all paid going rate for our tickets. I looked through the cars and there were several other spots that we could have used.

In the past I encouraged Amtrak to convert some areas on their equipment to support meetings such as ours, as I think they would be able to sell that service to a lot of businesses that would like to do a little something different. They never responded to my proposals.