...Amtrak got rid of the over-achieving folding chair that served as the separate chair in the room. Instead, the new chair is actually mounted to a pole in the floor. It is pretty large and comfortable with nice arm rests that go up and down.

For the first time, I don't feel like the chair I'm sitting in might collapse at any moment. I've never seen one collapse, but it always felt that it might. This one is quite solid. Although it doesn't have the flexibility of being able to be picked up and moved anywhere it will fit in the room, I always thought that was something odd for a chair to be able to do in a moving vehicle. I'm not one to advocate seat belts on a train, but I really like the idea of the furniture being bolted to the vehicle and not being able to go sliding or flying around the room at its own whim.

Don't forget to look under the chair for a lever that allows you to swivel the chair. I'm sure it was probably designed so that you could swivel the chair outward to face people sitting on the very long couch in the room. I am probably using it in an unusual way. I unlocked it to swivel to angle a bit better towards the table so that I would be facing my laptop computer from a bit of a better angle. The chair really is rock solid and doesn't slide around the room at all, except for when you want to change the angle using the lever under the chair.

Steve Grande "Amtrak Travelogue"

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