If you thought Amtrak Roomettes were small

[Overmod]

If the 1915 idea of jitneys could be made new in this grave new 21st Century world, why not a reboot of the Pickwick Nite Coach?  Of course it should have been done with modernized Pickwick - style amenities and not a Skil-sawed imitation of a Japanese capsule hotel ... but if they appeal to millennials (and no matter how crude, it HAS to be superior to sitting up in Megabus all night!) who am I to point out all the ways to do it better?

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

Those bus bunks make Slumbercoach accomodations look spacious.

[Deggesty]

NKP guy

   Ever see photos of the inside of a sleeper car on a WW2 troop train?

   I'm pretty sure that's what the future holds for Amtrak passengers who boldly persist in wanting something other than a coach seat on whatever LD train or two is left.

                                                       

    On the YouTube video of the bus trip that I saw, the very young and limber passengers enjoy the novelty of the experience, but they don't seem eager or excited to repeat their journey.

 

I presume you are referring to the triple decker cars that were built for the movement of troops. Pullman Conductor Moedinger wished that the Pullman name had not been on those cars. Far more troops moved in heavyweight cars that were pressed into miltary service. It is true that two men slept in each lower and one man in each upper in the cars built before the war. 

[NKP guy]

   Ever see photos of the inside of a sleeper car on a WW2 troop train?

   I'm pretty sure that's what the future holds for Amtrak passengers who boldly insist in wanting something other than coach seats on whatever LD train or two is left.

                                                       

    On the YouTube video of the bus trip that I saw, the very young and limber passengers enjoy the novelty of the experience, but they don't seem eager or excited to repeat their journey.

[CMStPnP]

A Sleeper Bus?    Between LA and San Francisco?   Apparently, from videos and what I read it is doing OK with bookings.     Though these compartments are too much like a coffin to me and I would not ride this way.

https://www.ridecabin.com/#!

Now I wonder how many of these compartments would fit on a retrofitted Amtrak Superliner Sleeping Car?    Perhaps, 2nd class accomodations?