I'd sure love to see numbers on this as well.What is the breakdown between number of paid passengers and number of AGR passengers in sleeping cars?Agree with Devils advocate. Much of the dingy, broken accomodations with the dirty carpets are in fact booked by travelers that use AGR point redemptions. Eliminate these passengers and the sleepers will have plenty of space available for Amtrak to attempt to sell but will they?
I was talking with Charlie and realized that, with the exception of one particularly "bad" routing (CHI-SAS-LAX-SEA), most of the "abusive" trips which have survived to the present are Florida-oriented and come down to the fact that there's no functional East-West gateway but Chicago. When AGR was started, the Sunset East (and Broadway/Three Rivers) did a lot to fill out the system and the Palmetto still went to Miami.