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Admittedly, yes it is.  While one can occasionally find low bucket sleepers, a round trip in economy would cost just as much if not significantly less than one way in a sleeper.  Having done both flying and sleeper to get to/from the northeast to Chicago, flying is the more practical option (from a time and money saving perspective), but the sleeper is the more fun option (if one is a train fan like myself).  While I do have fond memories attached to the trips where I flew, it is stuff like riding Metra's NCS and CTA's blue line for the first time that I remember fondly from those trips as opposed to the actual flying part (though I will admit that seeing downtown Chicago out of the window of my United airlines flights was pretty cool).