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Well lets see...in todays' (2002 anyway) dollars your slumbercoach fare New York to Chicago was $25.69....quite a bargain! Not bad for the cross country roomette trip at $344.39 in 2002 dollars either but having been able to ride on the last non-Amtrak carrier was no doubt a pleasure...

Bill, funny you should mention the Master Room on the Crescent. According to timtetables, the Master Room with shower lasted all the way up to the Amtrak takeover. I had very much wanted to try it out but was only in high school at the time and it was quite over the budget. At the time having a...

Thanks for the welcome; actually I was on this site before but with a different id...thought I would make sure my employers' name (a major railroad) best be not used By the way, I'm not sure there is a clear cut conclusion to whether or not todays' pricing is fair by historical standards...

Recent discussion on this site about various service issues concerning sleeping cars on Amtrak (End of video tv, lack of soft drinks etc) raised the issue of value of these ameneties considering they largely didn't exist in years past and/or are part of the ticket price. But how do things today...