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You will have to wait to Pittsburgh to heat and eat, Cumberland is no longer a fresh air stop. It may be time to revisit the microwave in roomette thread started by MeatPuppet some moons ago.

Not really, maybe over your feet. The link below has a side view diagram but does not seem totally accurate to me. It makes the rooms look larger. https://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/history/Images/presentation/side2-panel-k.jpg I found the link in this RAILforum thread...

The zipper pull faced inwards so would be difficult for someone outside to open. Up until Amtrak stopped smoking on trains, one could smoke in their sleeping accommodation so they always smelled like smoke. I prefer the 10-6 roomette over Superliner and dearly miss the Slumbercoach.

On the Capitol Limited cell service between Cumberland, Md. and Pittsburgh, PA in intermittent. I have Verizon.

Some of the youtube comments allude to Jim's creepiness. I enjoyed the video because I miss the 10-6 sleepers and slumbercoachs.

Here's mine. A little too scripted but it is a good history lesson of Amtrak accommodations. This video has been posted here before.

Thanks to you and Ryan for taking the time to do research and help me out.

I wasn't clear on the post you quoted. The screen shot you provided shows the Cardinal connection RVR- WAS using dollars not points. I was trying to book with points. I just tried a 2/16/18 departure, RVR-CHI using points and the only Cardinal connection is the thruway bus from RVR to CVS. I...

I get that, but using the old website I was able to book the entire 4 segment trip multi city using points. As far as I can tell using the multi city tool precludes the use of points. I was going to try to post screen shots but the Amtrak website is not responding as I write.

The rub there is that the routes I wanted to take were not allowed. I wanted to take the Cardinal from WAS to CHI but leaving from RVR the approved routing was to take the thruway bus from RVR to CVS which I did not want to do. In the past iteration of the Amtrak website this could be...

I'm still trying to figure out how to use AGR points for a multi-city itinerary. I got frustrated as the points option disappeared when using multi-city.

As of last week I was told by the Conductors that Cumberland is no longer a stretch/smoke stop for the CL. This was the case both east and west bound.

OK, I've never seen the switches that you are referring to. I was thinking of the older SL1 refurbs done more than a handful of years ago. I'll have to search around for some pics.

My reading comprehension is off. I was in a bedroom not a roomette so maybe they are different. It's been a few years since I've been in a roomette. This weekend I was in both SL1 and SL2 bedrooms and both had a three way toggle switch, middle was off, one direction was nightlight, the other...

I was in one these yesterday and the blue light could be turned off.

I have to be honest, it was LOUD. Not only the horn but the sound and vibration from the locomotives. I was in bedroom B with the bedroom end closest to the locomotives so there was not much of a buffer. I was worried about the smell of diesel fumes with no transdorm but there was a hatch...

I did a weekend round trip on 29/30 this weekend ad got the "service cancelled" on my reservation. When I called AGR Saturday morning the Agent has no clue as to why it said that, only saying that I was moved to another car in the same bedroom. 29 had no baggage car or transdorm, two sleepers...

I was on 30 today (1/15) in car 3002. Was on old refurbed SL1. No baggage or transdorm.

Good information. A question though. Am I reading the multi-city policy a bit harshly when I understand that if you use the multi-city option that connections are not guaranteed?

29 (30) is running on time, mostly, 26 mins down at Martinsburg. Probably deadheading 29 (29) to balance equipment??