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68 / the tasting panel / april 2018 TRAVEL T rain rides evoke a bygone era of elegance, when passengers dressed up for travel and settled in for a quiet experience often replete with indulgent amenities. The novelty—and any sense of privacy—is all but absent from modern-day travel hubs like crowded airports and stifling subway cars, but big buyers in the food and beverage industry experienced quite the luxurious change of pace during a recent train trip to the Very Important Beverage Executives (VIBE) Conference in San Diego, California. The expansive, private three-car train—owned by Texas-based marketing agency Patrick Henry Creative Promotions, which sponsored the trip—traversed southward along the AmTrak Pacific Surfliner track as passengers settled in on leather seats inside a glass-domed area on the second level. The Insider Track VIBE BEVERAGE CONFERENCE ATTENDEES TRAVERSE DOWN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST BY TRAIN WITH PR GURU PATRICK HENRY by Jesse Hom-Dawson photos by Todd Westphal A spectacular view of the Pacific Ocean from the caboose.