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Well, I will miss the Amfleets, and I hope at bunch are preserved in museums, tourist trains, etc.  The main negatives were the small windows and the lack of shades or curtains in the Amfleet 1 coaches.  The seats are very comfortable, and what I particularly appreciate is the indirect lighting.  The Acelas, and, apparently, the Ventures too, have bright flourescent (or maybe it's LED) lighting that gives the car the ambience of a commuter coach.  The Amfleet overhead luggage racks are also nice and large, but not too high off the ground, so lifting a suitcase up on the rack is not as hard as it was on some of the Heritage coaches.  I know they need to be replaced, they're pushing on being 50 years old, but I will miss them.