When I did my test booking on 67 this morning, it was still offering bicycle transport as an amenity.
I have got to hand it to Amtrak. This must be one of their new environmental initiatives to prevent passengers from sacking around too much baggage on their trips. And not having to handle checked baggage prevents injuries to employees and passengers. Passengers will no longer have to arrive at stations 45 minutes ahead of time to check bags or wait at their destination to pick up checked baggage because there isn't any. An no more train delays caused by loading and unloading checked baggage en route. A new day is dawning in the Northeast.
As someone who used to check baggage on 66 and 67, it seemed that the amount of checked baggage on those trains was pretty miniscule, too. I only check baggage because I had skis and was riding the Acela, and all I checked was the skis.
But there ought to be checked baggage on LSL, Boston being a major city and the terminus of an overnight LD train.
If I can check a bag on a CRJ-200 puddle jumper operating into BOS, Amtrak should be able to let me check my bags on a long distance train.
I guess the problem is there was not enough baggage on 448/449 to justify an entire baggage car. Perhaps if there was such a thing as a sleeper with a baggage compartment, which would reduce the number of sleeper accomodations. But the times I took 448/449 they were never full. In practice the SCA usually allocates an unused roomette for people to put bags in which kind of amounts to the same thing except that it is not checked and you have to carry it yourself if connecting to another train.
But 65,66, and 67 aren't long distance trains.
