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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...

Didn't the OG Capitol have Heritage domes and coach domes?

Here is the layout of the transdorm

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

If only it was still Fred Harvey - am I right?

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...

Doesn't Via rail Canada still offer open sections on some trains?

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...

I wore flip-flops on my last trip - no issues.

Another vote to offload the lounge lizards!

People do it all the time for a three hour ride S Florida to Orlando on the Silvers - includes lunch.

It begs this question: I have yet to travel in a viewliner sleeping accommodation, but do people really use the upper birth windows?

On the Amfeet II LD coaches in the east, aren't the seats in the front with extra room typically for handicapped and/or wheelchair passengers (if they are travelling)?

What's a "Business Travel Roomette"?

Roomettes sleep 2 people - why are you expecting 3 meals?? Seems reasonable to me.