If it only were just 10 minutes! We often sat there for 40 minutes; the only time it really bothered me was when we sat and sat just 12 miles from Charlotte NC where I was being met. That was not fun.)

I don't know how old you are, Child (*g*), but it used not to be Amtrak. I've read that the 'old' system ended in 1971. When I was a kid my family travelled by train from Oregon to Virginiam, long enough ago that it was still almost all steam trains. I saw my first new (diesel?) one below Washington DC.