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Coaches were added to the 20th Century Limited in the late fifties, but it kept its name until the late sixties.

Most railfans (including myself) like timetables, but I'm not sure how important they are to the traveling public. I suspect that fewer and fewer people even know how to read timetables.

I know it lasted into the early 60s, because I remember a stewardess-nurse when I rode the Capitol Limited.

During the 1960's B&O's Capitol Limited and National Limited each carried a stewardess-nurse.

Sleeper fares are at least theoretically set by supply and demand. Eliminating the complimentary meals would, as you suggest, reduce demand, which would in turn lead to lower fares. Then I would have the option of buying my meals in the dining car, buying food in the snack car, or buying dinner...

Again, this is why I think the sleeper charges and meal charges should be separate items.

It looks like a capacity problem. I think this would be less of a problem if meal prices were separated from sleeping car fares. Right now, sleeper passengers are paying for dining car meals whether they want them or not, and that discourages them from skipping meals, bringing their own food, or...

I am aware of that. I thought it was a bad idea at the time, and I still do.

I still think people should pay separately for sleeping car service and dining car meals. If the only way to fund diners is to force people to pay for meals they don't want, then maybe the diners really should be killed off, but I don't think that is what would happen. If fewer sleeping car...

The original B&O Capitol Limited did carry domes.

I never thought meal prices should be bundled into sleeping car fares in the first place!

Unless the Chicago-Detroit train is sealed going through Canada.

Atlanta - DC was a reasonable overnight trip, and was indeed used for a few business trips until the schedule was changed earlier this summer.

I note that this VIA press release refers to the train as the Ocean. I was under the impression that VIA had removed train names from all of its trains except the Canadian. Does this represent a change in the policy, or did the Ocean always retain its name?

I agree that metropolitan area sizes ought to be taken into account in any reimagining of the national passenger rail map. My dream criteria would be that a truly national system would serve the top 50 metros and it would serve the top 25 metros with arrivals and departures between 7 am and...

My mistake.

There is only one elevator. The baggage elevator and the "regular" elevator are one and the same.

I would like to think sleepers are profitable, but I've never seen any figures that would indicate whether they are profitable or not. If we did indeed have some figures indicating that the sleepers are profitable, it would make a strong case for expanding the sleeper fleet.

I stand corrected then.

I believe some western trains DO get extra cars in the summer. And Amtrak DOES find ways to add cars to some regional trains during the Thanksgiving rush. You suggest that standardizing the fleet would make it possible to shift cars back-and-forth between the Florida trains and the western...