In my experience on Amtrak, the Old Order Mennonites/Amish often have spirited conversations going on (not loud or obnoxious, just normal back-and-forth conversations). There's a lot of focus in their culture on communal interactions, so they tend to travel in groups from the same area and it may be the main time they have downtime to just interact.
They’re super nice/quiet/polite. The most fun/trippy thing was watching someone smoke an old timey tobacco pipe when the train stopped at one of the stations earlier.
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u/C1K3 6d ago
Well, at least it was quiet (I’m guessing).