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One final point comparing the Superliners that run in the west from the Viewliners that run in the east-- there are no family bedrooms in Viewliner sleeping cars. Just roomettes, bedrooms, and and bedroom suites, and the accessible bedroom.

No, the accessible bedroom does have a toilet and shower off at the side (as I SHOULD have remembered, but I've never ridden in one) but the family bedroom has only the sofa down the back, with the two facing seats on the other side. No room in that for plumbing. Perhaps you are thinking...

All good points. But the view from the upper level is a bit better, IMHO.

I'll reinforce that-- the upper berth is only 2 feet wide. The overlapping mattress you suggest is more apt to cause a problem just because the upper berth is so narrow. Probably the car attendant will just take the unused lower mattress away and stow it in an unoccupied compartment...

I wasn't thinking straight. The accessible bedroom ( I went to the Amtrak site and checked the official name) in a Superliner sleeping car does, of course, have its own plumbing. Only competition for the public restrooms is the regular roomettes and the family bedroom.

The attendant (not you) will convert your roomette, and they COULD just let down the upper berth- I think. Never tried that. Keep in mind that the upper berth is very narrow, and that if you are actually going to sleep there you really NEED to keep the restraint system in place. There will...