Or will it be one of those modified café cars with bike racks that used to run on the Lake Shore Limited?
There has been a Viewliner baggage car on that train since they started running viewliner baggage cars. And before that, 65/66/67 had heritage baggage cars. That train had the only baggage service in the NEC north of New York.
Great, let's see what Amtrak says a continental breakfast is for this service
Freakishly so, I wonder if it'sglitch? cj?
I haven't been camping since I was a kid and my family vacations were always in a camper at a campground. Toilet still it's own cubicle. Even a summer camp we did keep chamberpots in our tents (though we did pee the woods alot).I imagine you would not like camping, then.
Yeah! Depends what continent.
Seems about right
Nice. I notice that that press release seems to be aimed at travelers not familiar with sleeper travel and it doesn't mention toilets one way or the other.
Maybe it will free up table space in the dinette...thinking the train crew between WAS and NPN might move their "office" there....As of right now, there are no plans to remove/add the sleeper at WAS. It will deadhead between WAS-NPN. Don't really understand this one. Perhaps the ridership/revenue estimates south of WAS wouldn't cover the cost of an SCA down and back.
If I'm traveling by myself in a roomette, the in-room toilet in the V-1 sleepers is a non-issue, because I sleep in the upper bunk. This allows me to avoid sleeping by the toilet, and also be able to use the seats all night.
Yeah, I am taking the Cardinal in July, it will be my first experience with a low level LD train (and the NEC).If I'm traveling by myself in a roomette, the in-room toilet in the V-1 sleepers is a non-issue, because I sleep in the upper bunk. This allows me to avoid sleeping by the toilet, and also be able to use the seats all night.
Traveling 2 in a roomette is another matter. Using the in-room toilet requires exiling your roommate into the hall while you're using it. Obviously a problem at night. When I did traveled with somebody, I just put on my shoes and walked down to the coaches to relieve myself. It's a bit of a nuisance, as you have to walk through at least 3 cars before you get to the first coach, given that Long-distance Amfleet cafe cars don't have a restroom. I guess when I ride on a train with V-2 sleepers, I'll be able to use the common restroom in that sleeper even if I'm booked into a V-1.
However, when all is said and done, the in-room toilet isn't really all that gross. The whole roomette gets cleaned before you use it, and you're the only one using it. The actual commode is very well covered by a lid that serves as the first step to get up to the upper bunk. If you didn't know it was there, you would never guess that it covered a toilet. The main thing to consider is that if you use it while the train is standing at a station (especially one with high-level platforms), be sure to pull the window curtains fully shut!
You haven't lived until you've backpacked in a wilderness area of the Sierra Nevada above the tree line, where there are no toilets at all, and you have to make your own -- out in the open!You haven't lived until you've done a pit toilet in a BLM campground in the Northwest!
I don't have a lot of confidence in the quality of cleaning when a room is turned mid-route.
I once picked up a room mid-route. (Boarded at Havre on the Empire Builder.) The room was fine.
We had to ask the SLA to come to the room to clean the toilet when we boarded mid-route. don't know if she failed to clean it before we boarded or someone just decided to use it after it was cleaned. The latter could very well have been the case.
