My wife and I are about in embark on our first long distance travel. I am a person of large size and am corncerned about the seating in the dining cars, as I sometimes find booths to be to small in some eating establishments. Can anyone offer information along this line? Thanks!
I can't offer dimensions, but here's a photograph of me in a Heritage diner booth. Perhaps it will give you a better sense of the size of the booths? Unfortunately, the angle doesn't give you the best sense of the spacing between seat and table, but it's the best I could find, and perhaps it's still helpful.
This is the sort of dining car that runs on the Crescent and the Silver service. But in my experience all Amtrak dining car booths (on Heritage, Superliner, and Diner-Lite cars) are very similar in dimensions. The one different sort of booth arrangement is on the Cross Country Cafe cars which presently run on the Capitol Limited, the City of New Orleans, and the Texas Eagle. Those cars have a completely different booth set-up so this photo won't give you any help; and I've never been on one, so I can't offer a comparison of the sizing. But for all the other trains with dining cars, it's pretty representative.