Taking the train in North America is always such a bittersweet experience.
The stations are a hundred years old, with beautiful architecture, mosaics, lighting, but everything is so empty and unused.
Capacities for hundreds of people but only a few trains running a day, a shadow of their former capacity.
@wildweasel is this Seattle Kings Street?
@ben Yes it is - and like an hour before noon, at that, with nearly nobody around. More employees than riders. 
@wildweasel this is exactly the station I was in when I wrote the toot before
@ben Funny, I took the picture on Thursday, literally the day before you 😀
But yeah, had a much more pleasant experience riding Amtrak Cascades to Seattle and back than I've ever had on a plane. Didn't even mind that it was slightly slower; the amount of security-theater that my grandma and I _didn't_ have to go through, the Red Cap man helping us with luggage and getting her up the steps, and not having to be buckled into our seats for "take-off" gave us a better experience than any airliner.
