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Business Insider's reporter took two 30-hour Amtrak trips in sleeper cars and learned some lessons the hard way about overnight train journeys. I spent 60 hours on overnight Amtrak trips.
Amtrak offers sleeping cars on most of its overnight trains, using modern cars of the private-room type exclusively. Today, Amtrak operates two main types of sleeping car: the bi-level Superliner sleeping cars, built from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, and the single-level Viewliner sleeping cars, built in the mid-1990s.
Private sleeping rooms were restored to the unnamed overnight Northeast Regional trains 65/66/67 on April 5, 2021. [10] The trains were temporarily discontinued in January 2022. [11] On July 11, 2022, Amtrak resumed the trains without sleeper service and shifted the southern terminus of numbers 66/67 from Newport News to Roanoke, Virginia.
The Auto Train was the last Amtrak service to permit smoking on board. Amtrak discontinued the practice on June 1, 2013. Auto Train operates on the same route it and its predecessor have always used; the entire route is owned by CSX Transportation except for the southern 16 miles (26 km), which are owned by SunRail.
1. Start with a little research. First, make sure routes exist between your desired cities. Back on Track, a European rail advocacy group, maintains a night train database with all current and ...
Business Insider's reporter travels by overnight train in the US and Europe. Her experience in an Amtrak bedroom was the most comfortable in the US. I spent $1,000 to have a room to myself on a 30 ...
There has been a substantial decline in the number of long-distance overnight train services since the mid-1990s, caused by the increase in the number of high-speed daytime services, and competition from low-cost airlines. Environmental organizations are trying to make night trains more attractive again, as a more climate-friendly alternative ...
It’s also hard to make night trains profitable, considering that a day-running train car has about 70 seats, compared to the 20 to 40 berths on an average night train. And there is the issue of ...