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[quote user="schlimm"] 1. Why only one person in the 10-6 roomette but two in the Viewliner roomette?   Are the latter especially larger? 2. Amtrak having to provide LD trains with sleepers, etc. as a necessity is like saying we should provide transatlantic liners as were running still 50 years ago.  Jetliners made both obsolete as a mayor transportation conveyance by the end of the 1960's. [/quote] The roomettes in the 10 and 6 car were designed for one person. The roomette had just one bed, which pulled down from the wall.  The Viewliner roomettes have two beds.  One makes up from the seats and the other pulls down from the ceiling.  One can still experience a 10 and 6 car on the Indian Pacific and Ghan in Australia. I believe that they also run on the Canadian. On several occasions I have priced a roomette from Austin or Dallas to NYC. The total price was cheaper by taking the Capitol Limited to Washington and an NEC regional train to NYC as opposed to taking the Lake Shore Limited from Chicago to NYC.  The reason, I suspect, is because the Capitol Limited has Superliner cars, which can accommodate more than 40 people. BTW, the current on-line edition of USA Today has a nice travel log re: The Coast Starlight. One veteran traveler likens the food on Amtrak to Denny's.  Being a frequent partaker of Denny's offerings, I cannot disagree with his observation.
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