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I have had, years ago now, LSA's that were doing exactly what you mention. I showed my application and support, by giving those LSA's a good tip, and occasionally, a glowing report to Amtrak customer service.

The odds of someone learning you have a knife (or a thermonuclear warhead), goes up when you take it out to brandish. Even if you feel you there is a justified threat against you.

Wow, being locked into a roomette over night with four daughters would be worse than being in a Cardassian labor camp. ;)

Since the OP is traveling to Florida, I believe it would have to be on one of the Silvers, no? I wonder how much of your experiences on the Cardinal and the Crescent are known to map over to the Silvers?

Yea. I see either 91, Silver Star, departing PHL at 12:35PM and arriving at ORL at 10:06AM, or 97, Silver Meteor, departing PHL at 4:54PM and arriving at ORL at 12:49PM. To the OP, are you sure you aren't getting some kind of connection? Like taking a regional from PHL around 12:35PM, to...

If we don't talk about the "good old days", what else would we talk about to youngsters? I don't text, so what, using verbal communications? ☎

When the door tag says "exclusively with our Bedroom customers", do they really mean only bedroom and not roomette customers? Yea, I know, I can read, but Amtrak seems to be have a more loose definition of some sleeper class terms at times.

For a roomette, doesn't that change depending on if you are on the left side or right side?

Union Station? I guess today, it could be worse; Confederate Station. :D

While I have flown a few times, I am really quite uncomfortable flying. Flying leaves me arriving at my destination with my nerves shot, and doesn't make for a pleasant experience, for numerous compounding reasons. To me, sleeper class is somewhat like cruising. My roomette is like my cabin...

One type of sleeper passenger I have come across over the years, is the "token" sleeper. They are a member of a group (a family ?) that otherwise are all traveling in coach. They swap the usage (tag team) of the sleeper compartment throughout their trip (for a nap?). It becomes my...

My family in Florida, will bundle up in their parkas when the outside temp is in the 60's.

I assume you always stay in a hotel, where there is a common shared bathroom down the hall. For me, I think my grandparents did. Yea, I suspect that Hilton or Marriott would save a lot of money, if they could get away with building hotels without private bathrooms in their rooms.

Prove it.

Because it is better than walking? I was just thinking of a way for cutting back on LD trains, without totally abandoning LD service. If Amtrak had just one "bulk" train covering the East Coast, the Auto Train seems like the logical choice. I was exploring possible answers to the...

I had not considered that the Silvers cover the same distance in less time (16m faster) even with all their local stops. I wonder why? Expanding my though, I would envision a mini-Silver that would feed the North East, directly into Lorton. The mini-Silver would not need sleepers...

Having VL I sleepers on some trains (routes) and VL II sleepers on the others might cause problems unless they simply never sell the "extra" roomette on the VL I sleepers.

If there any publicly available data, on the percentage of passengers boarding/detraining at each of the stations along the SM and SS routes? I was just thinking if there could be a purely business, and non political, review of the Silver routes. Going on a slight tangent, I wish they allowed...