Originally Posted by
GoAmtrak
when I lived in WAS and took trains 66/67 to/from NYP regularly, I usually brought eyeshades for sleep, the easiest way to adjust to any level of lighting.
CMK10 has it right: Sitting in a darkened bedroom, cutting through the night on an LD train is a lovely, even stirring experience. ^
I've taken 66/67 a few times and the lights were always dimmed -- just like on long distance trains, only the over-aisle emergency lights were left on. (It's difficult to discern at a glance which seats are vacant, since many people are slumped over and it's dim.)
I was on a stupendously late Zephyr and had the eerie experience of seeing the Colorado canyons from inside a dark bedroom, the outside lit only by the train's headlamp. Not quite the view I was expecting (and highly un-photographable) but still magic.