Like others have said, yes. boarding the Silver Meteor in Orlando, I found the used ticket stub that showed someone boarded at Miami, and disembarked at Kissimee.
Bruce-SSR
It boggles me that someone would pay for a sleeper for a less the 5 hour daytime trip.
Happens often on various LD Trains when there is a Low Bucket Roomette with Diner Meal(s) for two involved! I've done it myself on the Coast Starlight between LAX and Santa Barbara, the Texas Eagle between Austin and Dallas/Ft Worth/Longview and on the Crescent between New Orleans and Atlanta!
The Silver Meteor is scheduled for 8:20 AM to 12:56 PM, so it would be lunch. The cheapest roomette I found using Amsnag was 95.00. Is lunch that expensive?
I don't remember exactly, but I had the impression looking at the ticket that it was for one person. Wouldn't they be served breakfast that time of the morning?
Like others have said, I would figure they just wanted privacy (see other thread about seat mates), or traveled with their own unchecked luggage.
What concerned me was... was the room 'serviced' between Kissimmee and Orlando? Finding the receipt on the floor bothered me a bit.
I am going to use the 'assume' word here, but I assumed before a sleeper, or any car for that matter, before going into service at a terminal, isn't their a checklist of things that need to get done, including a cleaning/disinfectant. I didn't think they could do that between stops.
When I am disembarking at Orlando, they are taking the sleeper rooms out of service, they ask me to move to another room after Winterpark as they remove the bed sheets and stuff to be laundered from my room. They aren't redoing the bedding.
And going to the bottled vs. tap water debate on trains, I am not a germaphobe, but before I use the facilities in a hotel room or such, I have Lysol sheets to disinfect certain areas. But I don't back away from someone when they sneeze like someone on this forum did with me
Bruce-SSR