Author: Travis Schlepp

Travis has been covering local and national news for more than a decade with bylines at some of the most prominent news organizations in the country. He’s covered a range of topics including travel, transit and sports, in addition to daily breaking news coverage. Travis is a Golden Mike nominated reporter, a two-time Southern California Emmy Award recipient and a second-place Spot News Coverage Award winner by the Associated Press as a member of the KEYT News Channel 3 team in Santa Barbara. Travis’ previous stories can be found on KTLA.com, The Hill, Yahoo News, MSN, and local news sites including KTVQ in Billings, Montana, and KEYT News Channel 3 in Santa Barbara. Previously, Travis served as the managing editor and operations lead at Dodgers Nation and LA Sports Report.

Wood paneling, travel souvenirs and the hum of worn out VHS tapes… Amtrak has officially entered into the moody aesthetic genre. On Friday, Amtrak released a ten-minute video of looping vintage ads and other “assorted railfan oddity” playing on a ’90s-era TV/VHS combo in an undisclosed location that is meant to be played in the background as you do homework or other chores or hobbies. “Throw this on in the background while you work, study, draw, journal, or just stare into the middle distance and try to remember the exact smell of your 1990s living room carpet,” the video description…

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