I do enjoy dining in the dining car as long as the passengers sharing your table are fully on board with it. (pun intended) I took a short trip on the Silver Service several years back, Deerfield Beach to Orlando and booked a reservation for lunch. This was back when they still had the...
I found this great link to a PDF of the "New Cascade" courtesy of Streamliner Memories which shows many of the "heritage" type rooms and car layouts
http://streamlinermemories.info/SP/SP50NewCascade.pdf
I have another question about the Open Section accomodation. Was there a specific time when the beds were made up or was is done by request? Also for the morning switching it back to the daytime configuration. Was there a "wake up call" so to speak when everyone was expected to be up? I'm...
I would love it if they replaced the sleepers with this:
VR Sleeper
No issues connecting with single-level cars but the style and layout may be a bit too European for the US market
I get that the layout was different between a bedroom and compartment, but what really is the difference? Were compartments just a bit larger?
Also, a modern section car would need showers plus I could see the debate about who gets to sit facing forward vs backward in the daytime configuration...
Sadly, I never got the opportunity to travel in a Heritage Bedroom/Roomette sleeping car, but I did do a Chicago - NTC and back run in a Slumbercoach. I had an "upper" slumbercoach and was amazing at how everything was included in the tiny space and I never felt the least bit claustrophobic. I...
I had a single slumbercoach on a trip from Chicago - NYC. my girlfriend and her son was in a double slumbercoach. Rather than use the toilet in the room, she used either the separate toilet at the end of the car or in the next car down which I think was a heritage sleeper. She told me that...
If I were you I'd do the Family Bedroom, but that's just my opinion of course. I once did a trip from Chicago - LA in Roomette 14 on the lower level and never felt that I had a lesser view being on the 1st floor. In reality, it was nice and quiet as there is no traffic going up and down the...
No no carpeting. I was in a single slumercoach between Chicago and NYC and my parter and her child was in a double. It was in January and I recall the puddles on the floor from snowy/wet shoes, it was like a black rubber floor. How I miss those slumbercoaches. I slept so well except...