Sleeping Car Loads?
Curious what the loads are for sleepers these days. Need to cross the US to get home and don’t really feel like flying is the best bet so I’m left w driving or Amtrak. Haven’t taken Amtrak outside NEC so not sure how much privacy/risk I have in a bedroom. Can’t imagine I’d get my own car but who knows these days.
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Originally Posted by dparkinson
(Post 32288350)
Curious what the loads are for sleepers these days. Need to cross the US to get home and don’t really feel like flying is the best bet so I’m left w driving or Amtrak. Haven’t taken Amtrak outside NEC so not sure how much privacy/risk I have in a bedroom. Can’t imagine I’d get my own car but who knows these days.
I've taken an Eastern long distance train a few times recently (since the panedemic started) and including my room, the maximum number of passenger-occupied rooms on the whole train has been 3. On the last trip, the only other passenger in the sleeping car got off early in the morning, so I had the entire car to myself for a while. Most stations had no passengers, so the train would stop at the station but immediately start up again. Oddly, on each trip, my room was next to another passenger's room; perhaps the Amtrak computer system starts booking rooms with room 1 first, room 2 second, etc. If you'd prefer to keep your distance, just ask to move. Note: the dining car was removed from my train and there was only a cafe car, but serving most of the same prepackaged "Flexible Dining" items and drinks as the dining car served. I guess Amtrak these days is like Queen Elizabeth's royal train (but for the food): you have basically the whole train to yourself, with many more crew members than passengers. As long as you can avoid the mandatory idiotic boarding line at larger stations, you can board the train, take your trip and get off without being within 6 feet of a person, very easily. The only people you'll definitely encounter are crew members and on my latest trip, they seemed concerned about coming too close to others, too. |
If I had to travel right now, I think a Bedroom on Amtrak would be my preferred mode. A Roomette would be too close to another person if the room across the hall were occupied.
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Originally Posted by Maglev
(Post 32289770)
A Roomette would be too close to another person if the room across the hall were occupied.
I was in a roomette on each trip. |
Just keep in mind that a roomette on the Chicago-West Cost trains won't have a restroom in the room, you have a shared bathroom on the lower level or on the upper level. The East Coast-Chicago viewliners have their own restroom in the roomettes as well as the bedrooms.
I would probably book a full bedroom given the current situation so you get your own restroom. |
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