And people dressed up to travel- it was an event. And they gave you food with white glove table service.
The golden age of travel by train lives only in museum collections of hallmarked railroad china dinner settings, and postcards of full amenity overnight cars. The general fare passengers got the pullmans with the bunk beds (as in the movie ‘White Christmas’ but those too, had service and a dining car. Dining car!!
Once you were passengers, now you are cattle