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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ehbowen: [QB] For me it was the [URL=http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track9/texeagle196706.html]Texas Eagle in the summer of 1967[/URL]--late summer, probably August, according to my mother. I was four years old. I recount some of my memories at the bottom of the timetable page. Another: On our way to the diner I remember passing through a sleeping car and wondering why Mom and I couldn't have one of those nifty little rooms. I found out during my first Amtrak trip twelve years later—on the Lone Star from Houston to Chicago (and the Blue Water on from Chicago to East Lansing) just before the Carter Cuts took effect. Sleeper upgrades were pricey!—if memory serves, it was $52 one way for a bedroom (no roomettes) on that Lone Star, and $52 would buy a lot in 1979. My first overnight sleeper trip was in a roomette on the City of New Orleans heading home for Christmas in 1981. I took several more overnight trips in coach in the '80s and '90s, but since my last trip to Michigan and back in 2004 I have found the wherewithal to upgrade to a roomette for any overnight journeys. I won't say that I'll never travel coach again—if it's just one night and I'm by myself I might consider it—but as I get older and wider I am increasingly inclined to budget sleeper accommodations as a necessity, not an add-on. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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