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It would be nice it they had a car for only bedrooms and cars for only roomettes. That twist in the hall gets annoying when you are trying to move luggage around.A new generation of Viewliners that have more than two bedrooms per car. This way the Crescent and LSL can offer more than two bedrooms per train or a refurbished Viewliner sleeper that is all bedroom.
Amtrak does have a few "Deluxe Sleeper Cars" (Superliner) which have only bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs they have the usual 4 Roomettes, Family Bedroom & H Bedroom. They are used on the Auto Train.It would be nice it they had a car for only bedrooms and cars for only roomettes. That twist in the hall gets annoying when you are trying to move luggage around.A new generation of Viewliners that have more than two bedrooms per car. This way the Crescent and LSL can offer more than two bedrooms per train or a refurbished Viewliner sleeper that is all bedroom.
Amtrak does not have any all roomette cars. Slumbercoaches did not count as such since they had both single rooms and double rooms (however narrow and small).Amtrak does have a few "Deluxe Sleeper Cars" (Superliner) which have only bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs they have the usual 4 Roomettes, Family Bedroom & H Bedroom. They are used on the Auto Train.It would be nice it they had a car for only bedrooms and cars for only roomettes. That twist in the hall gets annoying when you are trying to move luggage around.A new generation of Viewliners that have more than two bedrooms per car. This way the Crescent and LSL can offer more than two bedrooms per train or a refurbished Viewliner sleeper that is all bedroom.
I don't know if there are any "Roomette Only" cars, other than the old Slumber Coaches.
Yes Bill you are absolutely correct about the pre-Amtrak roomettes. I don't recall seeing married couples in anything smaller than a bedroom and really envied those in the compartments, drawing rooms and that grand daddy of them all~ the Master Room.Amtrak does not have any all roomette cars. Slumbercoaches did not count as such since they had both single rooms and double rooms (however narrow and small).Amtrak does have a few "Deluxe Sleeper Cars" (Superliner) which have only bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs they have the usual 4 Roomettes, Family Bedroom & H Bedroom. They are used on the Auto Train.It would be nice it they had a car for only bedrooms and cars for only roomettes. That twist in the hall gets annoying when you are trying to move luggage around.A new generation of Viewliners that have more than two bedrooms per car. This way the Crescent and LSL can offer more than two bedrooms per train or a refurbished Viewliner sleeper that is all bedroom.
I don't know if there are any "Roomette Only" cars, other than the old Slumber Coaches.
The private railroads before Amtrak had many more types of sleeping car rooms and floor plans than we have today. And there were several types of all roomette cars back then.
Also keep in mind that the preAmtrak word "roomette" always meant a room for one, unless, perhaps,it carried a mother with a small child.
Bill: Do the Superliner Trandorms count as all roomettes since thats all they have upstairs? I only rode in a slumbercoach once, on the old Crescent from WAS to Greenville,S.C.,found them uncomfortable due to my heightbut the price was sure right! Two days until I catch the Eagle N by NE on my trip to PHL for NTD!(Wonder if Eva Marie Saint will be in the diner! ) See you @ 30th St. when the Crescent pulls in, looking forward to meeting you, picking your brain about Southern Trains and the old days!
Should be a blast with a large group there, wonder if Amtrak will lay on extra Security cause of AU? Jim :lol:
Bill, at some point in time weren't there full length Section cars? Admittedly no rooms but if there were such they would be a car full of cheap sleeping accommodation.Good point. I was thinking of a full length car devoted all to passengers. Guess it is a matter of semantics
Bill, at some point in time weren't there full length Section cars? Admittedly no rooms but if there were such they would be a car full of cheap sleeping accommodation.Good point. I was thinking of a full length car devoted all to passengers. Guess it is a matter of semantics
AlohaBill, at some point in time weren't there full length Section cars? Admittedly no rooms but if there were such they would be a car full of cheap sleeping accommodation.Good point. I was thinking of a full length car devoted all to passengers. Guess it is a matter of semantics
AMEN, BRAATHA!!!!My one wish is for the return of passenger rail service across the Florida panhandle to connect to New Orleans.
Airports tooSimple: that the idiotic politicians we elect gave the same amount of funding to passenger rail as they pour out for the damn highways every year.
Actually Plate H (double stack) or Plate K (triple auto rack) clear 20' 3", or so, which gives you a couple of feet or three worth of room above the roof of Supers for a dome. Supers fit within Plate F (17') I believe.I hiope that all those wishing for domes realize that a dome mixed into a Superliner consist is useless. You won't be able to see over the Superliner cars, so most of the charm of the dome would be wasted. And a dome that could see over the tops of the Superlier cars is a dome that won't make it through many of the tunnels out there.
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