Mahogany interiors, five-course meals and personal butler service will be available on several Amtrak routes starting this fall, as the national passenger railroad embarks on a new partnership with GrandLuxe Rail Journeys.
The companies have teamed up to attach seven special GrandLuxe cars to regularly scheduled Amtrak trains.
For Amtrak, the partnership will be a moneymaker, company spokesman Cliff Black said. He declined to say exactly how much privately held GrandLuxe is paying the government-owned corporation.
“We like the opportunity to experiment with creative marketing approaches,” Black said. “Anything that elevates the profile of passenger-train service is beneficial to Amtrak.”
[via USA Today]
