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Most trains have a lounge car with big picture windows offering a wide view of the passing scenery.

Second, it’s a lovely train, a hotel on rails with private sleeping rooms and a lounge car.

In the lounge car, the bartender, Darrell Bennett, was playing Tracy Chapman and doing a brisk business in Bloody Marys.

Everyone in the lounge car seemed lulled into the same peaceful mood.

Dozens of city, county, chamber and commercial officials packed into the Flying Crow passenger rail lounge car to celebrate Joplin’s birthday, the Texarkana Gazette reported.