The Coastal Starlight has been a great train. I've flown across from Europe to ride it more than once and included it as centrepiece of other trips. The PPCs are what made it. Just a wonderful place to be and an option to have. Unfortunately, CS it lost its PPCs for a while a year or two back, so I cancelled and have avoided since. I no longer recommended it to friends.
Now this! Aaargh. Doesn't building / re-furbing PPCs and sleeper carriages maintain US jobs and skills?
The Zephyr remains a great train. But it has no PPCs and thus fewer options by way of where to sit / eat / chill. I can't imagine coming over to ride a CS without a PPC.
What a shame!