The roomette seems reminiscent of the sleepercoachs I rode 50+ years ago on the 20th Century Limited. If memory serves the cost was a mere $7.00 above the cost of a coach seat.
@Digby Dooright My mother would always get the First Class Bedrooms when she went out to Los Angeles to see her sister. She liked the bath room in her bed room. She did not want to share the bath room. Heheheheheehhe. She did not like flying to much so she would always take the train. She did not mind paying a little more in the fare on Amtrak.... Well, you take care and Happy Holidays to you...
@@MarcusLeepapi The price for a bedroom New York to Jacksonville is over $1,100. The Roomette is around $650. And, these are Senior Citizen prices. An airline ticket is less than $100 for certain flights. So, you really have to want to travel by train in order to put out that type of money. Some people can't fly or refuse to fly so the train is an option. Also you have to have the time as train travel in the US is pretty darn slow.
Hello everyone , if you enjoy doing it, the train is the best , the rocking motion , YES!. Skip the mile high club , way too uncomfortable, take the train, get a room , they have access to showers and if you have a room breakfast and dinner are included. So take train and have fun getting it done.
i love these vds i am taking mt very first cross Counrty train ride this November from Reno Amtrak to Charolette NC to visit my cusin for Thanksgiving. it will be Awwsome trip for me
Eugene Evans Let us know how it goes! Last time I rode Amtrak was in 1994 when I was 12, and it was for a three week circular tour of the USA through almost twenty states.
If you're doing an overnight trip go with the sleeper but if you're going like coast to coast then do the the larger room, but yes the price difference is a huge spread
Hello, good night, I really like your video, when I pass the pandemic, I hope to travel to the United States and travel on those trains, greetings from Mexico, like and new subscriber
Even with a SLEEPER CABIN it does not guarantee you a shower in cabin!! I traveled from DC- SEATTLE in a Disabled sleeper cabin and still had to use public shared showers out in the hall. It was at least 4 day trip arriving 12 hours late to SEATTLE.
We are trying a trip from the Philly area to Seattle. Viewliner ADA bedroom from NYP to CHI and then a Superliner ADA bedroom to Seattle. I have a prosthetic AK left leg. Should be interesting.
I have always wanted to travel across the US on Amtrak, but after seeing how awfully cramped it is I will stick to the road or air. Great video though. Thank you. LONDON ENGLAND
I paid only $615 for two people from Norfolk to DC on the Northeast Regional and then DC to Atlanta in a bedroom on the Crescent, pictured here. They were doing track work between Atlanta and New Orleans that weekend, so the train was only running to Atlanta. Ticket prices were very reasonable.
Yeah, you can only lock them from the inside, so anyone could just come in while you’re eating dinner in the next car over. That being said, I was never too worried. There were very few people walking through our car during the trip.
John Lambert are u not from North America? Via is the passenger rail system that takes us from igloo to igloo in That vast country north of the U.S called Canada. Maybe you've heard of it ?
All the cabins on our end of the car in the video were unoccupied. There were only a few sleeper passengers on the entire train, as it wasn't running all the way to New Orleans that week due to track work.
They took the Diner off the Silver Star a couple of years ago. They're stopping diner car service on the LSL and the Capitol Limited. AMTRAK is under pressure to save money. I just have feeling in my gut that the Silver Meteor and the Crescent will be next. They'll "mothball" the Viewliner Dining Cars and then turn their attention to the long-distance trains. I just don't see a great future ahead for food service on AMTRAK.
Truthfully I don't see a great future ahead for Amtrak, period. In about five to ten years all I see Amtrak as, is a Northeast Corridor service with nothing else. The Southwest Chief is becoming a grim omen I think for what is the future of long distance rail for Amtrak, where they're going to only focus on their one 'gem', which is the NEC.
I'll tell you, I'm not sure that there should be a future for long-distance train travel. At age 78, I'm as much of a rail fan as anyone. I rode the 20th Century Limited, the "original" California Zephyr and Denver Zephyr. They were wonderful, memorable experiences. However, if I want to go coast-to-coast today, I'll take a plane and travel the best class that is available and that I can afford. As for short-distance travel, I used AMTRAK's "Empire Service" from Albany to NY. Great ride. Fast. Allowed me to work while I was riding. That's the kind of service that AMTRAK should concentrate on.
So sad to watch what America did to its trains and the entire railway system. Everything is worn out, the tracks are bad, the locomotives are old and still run on diesel (incredible!!). Some day America will realize that no industrialized country can stay competitive without a modern (electrified!!!) railway system. Look what countries like Germany, France, Japan, China, Taiwan, Austria or Switzerland did. They built one electrified high speed railway after another. Are they all wrong?
The Northeast Corridor, between Washington D.C. & New York is electrified, & has been for many decades. The Great Northern ( Today BNSF Railway - with Amtrak's Empire Builder ) had a 50 mile stretch of electric railway at the Cascade Tunnel in Washington state. They eliminated it in 1956 when diesels could run through the tunnel without overheating. The Milwaukee Road had two electrified districts; one in Montana & one in Washington state - but they were eliminated in the 1970s.
Does anyone know how accurate the Con Cor N scale viewliners are? I picked up some of the Kato viewliner baggage cars for my Superliner and silver service trains and they are awesome, but Kato doesn't do the diner yet. I'm using a N scale Con Cor heritage dining car instead. It looks good but I want to update it like the real Amtrak is doing. Are there only still 3 viewliner diners or have more been delivered? Are there still heritage diners still running back east?
@@FAyalapoggi Google Amtrak.com. Then enter from New York (Penn Station) to either Jacksonville, Orlando, or Miami. You can choose a Seat, a Roomette, or a Bedroom. Choose how many people will be traveling. It will give you the price and also the trains available. There are only two trains per day to Florida. I would think that 3 people in a Roomette would be very tight and uncomfortable. The Roomette is pretty tight for 2 people. If you can afford it a Bedroom would be a lot better.
Except for the Auto Train, you have to really like traveling by train to choose it over the airlines. Very time consuming and expensive. I'd rather spend my vacation time doing something else.
I paid $747 for a bedroom accommodation from NYP all the way to NOL. I bought my ticket back in February though. May do a vid, we’ll see. But if you wanna get a ticket better do it as early as you can.
brazil5657 there’s a shower at the end of the carl if you’re in a roomette. As for the price, it can fluctuate wildly depending on the route and how busy it is. Fortunately for us, they were doing track work that day and the train was scheduled to terminate at Atlanta instead of New Orleans, so demand was low and sleeper tickets were quite inexpensive, even when booked a couple weeks out.
Prices and availability can vary quite a lot depending on the route, the season, and when you book. Not all trains have sleeping cars, either. So your best bet is to do some homework on the Amtrak website. Or google Amtrak vacations, if you plan on taking Amtrak for a vacation trip.
Thank you for not playing annoying and "too loud" music behind the video! Nice tour.
joshhanson915 v
Sweet and to the point!!! Finally, and THANK YOU!
Miss riding the train. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you I love taking trains.
Nice tour, and in HD. I appreciate that. The only thing I regret was that it wasn't any longer! Thanks, and a THUMBS UP for you.
The roomette seems reminiscent of the sleepercoachs I rode 50+ years ago on the 20th Century Limited. If memory serves the cost was a mere $7.00 above the cost of a coach seat.
Geez! I wish we could still travel like that. Thanks for sharing, James :)
A very well done tour....no stupid music or comments. Well done, liked and subscribed.
Yes, I love the Bedroom ones..
@Digby Dooright My mother would always get the First Class Bedrooms when she went out to Los Angeles to see her sister. She liked the bath room in her bed room. She did not want to share the bath room. Heheheheheehhe. She did not like flying to much so she would always take the train. She did not mind paying a little more in the fare on Amtrak.... Well, you take care and Happy Holidays to you...
@Digby Dooright Hehehehehe...Yeah, that is how my Mother is and was...Thanks...You take care and enjoy traveling. I know I have....
@@MarcusLeepapi The price for a bedroom New York to Jacksonville is over $1,100. The Roomette is around $650. And, these are Senior Citizen prices. An airline ticket is less than $100 for certain flights. So, you really have to want to travel by train in order to put out that type of money. Some people can't fly or refuse to fly so the train is an option. Also you have to have the time as train travel in the US is pretty darn slow.
Really.never done it. traveling From Tampa to Philly. They look so small and claustrophobic. Are they comfortable
Hello everyone , if you enjoy doing it, the train is the best , the rocking motion , YES!. Skip the mile high club , way too uncomfortable, take the train, get a room , they have access to showers and if you have a room breakfast and dinner are included. So take train and have fun getting it done.
i love these vds i am taking mt very first cross Counrty train ride this November from Reno Amtrak to Charolette NC to visit my cusin for Thanksgiving. it will be Awwsome trip for me
Nice views coming out of Reno
Eugene Evans
Let us know how it goes!
Last time I rode Amtrak was in 1994 when I was 12, and it was for a three week circular tour of the USA through almost twenty states.
I rode from philly to arizona on amtrak. It was a great trip, I got a chance to see America and many things that I've only seen in Text books.
I love the train it's the Best I just wish we had more of them.
Nice! I was wondering the difference between a roomette and the bigger bedroom. It’s quite a vast difference.
If you're doing an overnight trip go with the sleeper but if you're going like coast to coast then do the the larger room, but yes the price difference is a huge spread
Hello, good night, I really like your video, when I pass the pandemic, I hope to travel to the United States and travel on those trains, greetings from Mexico, like and new subscriber
Oh I would love to get on.🎊🎈🎆2020!
I enjoyed your video, I think I'd very much like to take the train now that I know what to expect. Thank you for posting it.
Cool !!!
Even with a SLEEPER CABIN it does not guarantee you a shower in cabin!! I traveled from DC- SEATTLE in a Disabled sleeper cabin and still had to use public shared showers out in the hall. It was at least 4 day trip arriving 12 hours late to SEATTLE.
Those corridors look so frighteningly narrow!
They’re not, I promise!
Very nice. That's a different dining car from the regular one I have seen.
Very few have dining cars only shit cold food horrible!.
That was a Viewliner...do you usually ride on (2-level) Superliners?
We are trying a trip from the Philly area to Seattle. Viewliner ADA bedroom from NYP to CHI and then a Superliner ADA bedroom to Seattle. I have a prosthetic AK left leg. Should be interesting.
Thank you for the tour.
i have been in coach one time to FL from NYC. But next trip will be a roomette thanks for the video subscribed.
So cozy.
Crescent train from New-York city to New Orleans.
definitely look better now than they did when I worked for them in the late 70s; however, they're still quite small.
The sleeping car Amtrak is like an RV.
The hallways look so narrow I'm surprised two people could pass by each other. Seems cool, though.
Princess Taboo they’re a bit wider in person. Its just the camera.
these vids are very helpful im your first time
At the end of the tour did you have to cut a hole in the train floor with your laser watch?
Weird, how it sounds like the train is moving even when it is not.
I have always wanted to travel across the US on Amtrak, but after seeing how awfully cramped it is I will stick to the road or air. Great video though. Thank you. LONDON ENGLAND
You can book the family bedroom. It's the biggest.
Cool video do they still give little bar soaps in the shower on the trains or is the liquid stuff?
They had the bar soaps back when I rode in 2018
Super rad. How much of an upgrade price wise was it for you? Totally worth it. That's awesome and I'm excited
I paid only $615 for two people from Norfolk to DC on the Northeast Regional and then DC to Atlanta in a bedroom on the Crescent, pictured here. They were doing track work between Atlanta and New Orleans that weekend, so the train was only running to Atlanta. Ticket prices were very reasonable.
That's what I dislike about Amtrak sleeper compartments is that you can't lock them to keep people from robbing you.
Agreed!
John Lambert holy crap. Are u for real? That is totally wrong ! I dont think its that way on VIA
Yeah, you can only lock them from the inside, so anyone could just come in while you’re eating dinner in the next car over.
That being said, I was never too worried. There were very few people walking through our car during the trip.
Daveyboy _ what is VIA?
John Lambert are u not from North America? Via is the passenger rail system that takes us from igloo to igloo in That vast country north of the U.S called Canada. Maybe you've heard of it ?
Haha, hey Matt... You just showed up in my reconnections
That was a nice tour? Did you just walk into someone's cabin?
All the cabins on our end of the car in the video were unoccupied. There were only a few sleeper passengers on the entire train, as it wasn't running all the way to New Orleans that week due to track work.
How do you know which roommette is yours? Are they numbered? Do they have room keys?
Im your 100th subscriber! Congrats
The Viewliner Diners are excellent. From some of the food service changes already announced, I suspect the cars won't be around much longer.
Cats01 whys that ?
They took the Diner off the Silver Star a couple of years ago. They're stopping diner car service on the LSL and the Capitol Limited. AMTRAK is under pressure to save money. I just have feeling in my gut that the Silver Meteor and the Crescent will be next. They'll "mothball" the Viewliner Dining Cars and then turn their attention to the long-distance trains. I just don't see a great future ahead for food service on AMTRAK.
Truthfully I don't see a great future ahead for Amtrak, period. In about five to ten years all I see Amtrak as, is a Northeast Corridor service with nothing else. The Southwest Chief is becoming a grim omen I think for what is the future of long distance rail for Amtrak, where they're going to only focus on their one 'gem', which is the NEC.
I'll tell you, I'm not sure that there should be a future for long-distance train travel. At age 78, I'm as much of a rail fan as anyone. I rode the 20th Century Limited, the "original" California Zephyr and Denver Zephyr. They were wonderful, memorable experiences. However, if I want to go coast-to-coast today, I'll take a plane and travel the best class that is available and that I can afford. As for short-distance travel, I used AMTRAK's "Empire Service" from Albany to NY. Great ride. Fast. Allowed me to work while I was riding. That's the kind of service that AMTRAK should concentrate on.
Looks like 1980s European train interior.
Are there sleeper cars for families with 3 young kids
Yes. The family room fits 4.
So sad to watch what America did to its trains and the entire railway system. Everything is worn out, the tracks are bad, the locomotives are old and still run on diesel (incredible!!). Some day America will realize that no industrialized country can stay competitive without a modern (electrified!!!) railway system. Look what countries like Germany, France, Japan, China, Taiwan, Austria or Switzerland did. They built one electrified high speed railway after another. Are they all wrong?
The Northeast Corridor, between Washington D.C. & New York is electrified, & has been for many decades. The Great Northern ( Today BNSF Railway - with Amtrak's Empire Builder ) had a 50 mile stretch of electric railway at the Cascade Tunnel in Washington state. They eliminated it in 1956 when diesels could run through the tunnel without overheating. The Milwaukee Road had two electrified districts; one in Montana & one in Washington state - but they were eliminated in the 1970s.
Does anyone know how accurate the Con Cor N scale viewliners are? I picked up some of the Kato viewliner baggage cars for my Superliner and silver service trains and they are awesome, but Kato doesn't do the diner yet. I'm using a N scale Con Cor heritage dining car instead. It looks good but I want to update it like the real Amtrak is doing. Are there only still 3 viewliner diners or have more been delivered? Are there still heritage diners still running back east?
I chose the coach! I can't get into those beds
Aren’t knees a little tight???
I have a question. There are space for three persons? I want to travel with my 2 daughters. Thanks
Fabiola Ayala yes, the bottom bunk will fit two people
And how can I book from ny to Florida? I try to, but I can’t. Thank you very much 😘
@@FAyalapoggi Google Amtrak.com. Then enter from New York (Penn Station) to either Jacksonville, Orlando, or Miami. You can choose a Seat, a Roomette, or a Bedroom. Choose how many people will be traveling. It will give you the price and also the trains available. There are only two trains per day to Florida. I would think that 3 people in a Roomette would be very tight and uncomfortable. The Roomette is pretty tight for 2 people. If you can afford it a Bedroom would be a lot better.
Are these beds in the sleeper cars suitable for a person at max. 7 ft?
It would be a bit tight. Bottom bunk in the roomette would be the longest at 6'6"
Except for the Auto Train, you have to really like traveling by train to choose it over the airlines. Very time consuming and expensive. I'd rather spend my vacation time doing something else.
A lot louder than I thought it would be.
Whats a rough estimate of how much a sleeper car costs? Im just looking for a ballpark number for a round trip.
Just depends where you’re going. Typically north of $500 and hopefully under $2000 for most trips.
I paid $747 for a bedroom accommodation from NYP all the way to NOL. I bought my ticket back in February though. May do a vid, we’ll see. But if you wanna get a ticket better do it as early as you can.
Probably a stupid question but are you allowed to sit in another seat to see the view?
Eileen Daniel you’re able to switch to any seat within your assigned room. Some trains also have an observation car that you can visit.
Does a roomette have a door lock when you are away?
i got claustrophobic just looking at those tiny hallways! and im not even that badly claustrophobic!!
Amtrash!
Why is there just sound and no video?
It would be cool if the the hogwarts express had these on the way to Hogwarts if it took days to get to
LOL Hogwarts isn't real, Old Sport
Seeing all that cardboard and trash in the food car was disappointing, it just tanked the entire video.
How much are the big rooms?
What about showers?. Is it true these little rooms are very expensive?
brazil5657 there’s a shower at the end of the carl if you’re in a roomette. As for the price, it can fluctuate wildly depending on the route and how busy it is.
Fortunately for us, they were doing track work that day and the train was scheduled to terminate at Atlanta instead of New Orleans, so demand was low and sleeper tickets were quite inexpensive, even when booked a couple weeks out.
Matthew Piotrowski. Thanks Matthew. Your video and reply is very helpful info.
Prices and availability can vary quite a lot depending on the route, the season, and when you book. Not all trains have sleeping cars, either. So your best bet is to do some homework on the Amtrak website. Or google Amtrak vacations, if you plan on taking Amtrak for a vacation trip.
@@fredgarvin9262 Flying , how common, the train is the only way to fly , very romantic and great for sex.
Soviet era Amtrak
How much 💰💰
Your "fish eye" lens is not appropriate for this type of video because it does not give a realistic prospective to judge the size by.
The cabins are actually so tight, the only way you can properly see everything in them is with the wide angle GoPro lens.
then you upload the video
Works for us.
Super vedio
I don't understand is the bed I don't see any bed
It's folded.
Would suck when the person you share the room with takes a shit...EVEN IF IT'S YOUR WIFE....NO WAIT, THAT WOULD REALLY SUCK
So tiny smh
I don't.like all the metal in these Amtrac trains....gives me the creeps....give me the Oruent Express any day....
No narration to tell people what they're looking at? Lame.
Slow, slow, slow.
God the blue color is hideous!
I would not pay my own money to stay in there.
someone has to pay me to suffer that facility.