Viewliner Storage and Roomette Toilet

[Cannondale]

I know how there is the storage are on the lower level of the Superliners and want to know if there is an equivelent on the Viewliners.

Specifically, my son and his friend want to bring their unicycles on the Lake shore limited (view Liner)and I thought that they could just put them in the carry on luggage area, if the viewliner has an area like that. We will have two roomettes, FWIW.

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Also, how are the roomettes for smell with the toilet in them?

Thanks

Dan

 

[TVRM610]

Viewliner Cars do not have luggage storage space as do other Amtrak cars. There is lovely overhead space located in all rooms (Bedrooms, and Roomettes) but I do not think they would accomodate unicycles unless they can be broken down in some way.

 

[RailFanLNK]

Ditto on the luggage info. I used the sitdown mode when we were getting ready to vacate the room. If we weren't getting ready to vacate I found a public toilet. For when I just needed to stand up and use the bathroom, people would vacate and I would quickly use it. A Viewliner room will quickly teach a man to put the "lid down"! :lol:

 

[Tony]

Also, how are the roomettes for smell with the toilet in them?

I've been ridding in Vlewliner roomettes for years. I have never had the toilet itself smell. Of course, add to that one's own personal attention to keeping the general area clean (or not).

Since the toilet usage in the roomette is strictly your own, if you keep it clean it will remain clean and fresh. That is quite a differnce from the "public" toilets on the train where you are always the victim of the accumulated filth of all the preceding users. And I can tell you, especially when trains get substantially delayed, the filth of the "public" toilets can easily get quite unbearable.

 

[PaulM]

Last Summer I bicycled the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany on a folding bicycle, arriving in Buffalo and departing from Albany on the LSL.

On both legs of the trip I managed to stash the folding bike in the community luggage rack in the closest coach. Departing Chicago I had no competition because sleeping car passengers boarded early for the wine and cheese fest. On the return departing I took advantage of the boarding chaos to slip past the coach attendant and stash the bike. There was still room in the rack.

BTW folding bikes are treated as carry-on luggage; but I don't know about unicycles.