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You can't lock any sleeping compartments. For cameras or any other valuable equipment, I either don't take it, take a cheaper one, or hide it out of sight. Also, close the curtains when you leave the room so a passing opportunist won't know whether you're in there or not.
The best movie to see has around 1200 miles of film, is included in the price of your ticket, is best viewed on a 50" screen, is enhanced by audience participation, allows personal recording equipment to be used, runs 24 hours per day, but suffers from poor lighting conditions for hours at a time, and even stops several times. That's right, it's through your window.
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Coach is another matter. I would think a laptop cable/lock (available in most computer stores) would be a good idea, if something like a luggage rack or seat support could be used to secure it.
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Thank You gentlemen, I guess it's much like camping, mutual respect for each others property. Thant's good to know.
We do travel by train for the scenery, however sometimes there is not much to see or it is dark outside. Our trip from Cin - NYP is almost 20 hours most of which is daytime,thus the reason we are going coach, but 20 hours is a LONG TIME.
Anyway, are there electric outlets at coach seats on Viewliner?
The last time we rode the Cardinal it was a Superliner with a Sightseer Lounge, loved those outside facing seats. Is there such a place on the Viewliner train?
Thanks for your input.
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My trip last week which included the Carolinian and Palmetto was done in coach (regular....not business) and both trains did have outlets at each seat. This was done at the most recent renovation though......there are still some unrefurbished amfleet coaches rolling around the system and the Cardinal usually gets the leftover equipment. You might have and outlet, you might not.
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In the Superliner roomettes where there is a thin closet by the door, I attach my universal laptop cable around the clothes hanger rod and keep the laptop in the closet. The room is small enough so I can use (and recharge) the laptop without ever unlocking the cable.
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I have recently returned from a long cross-country Amtrak trip (Seattle-NYP), and had an Amfleet-II seat on the Lakeshore from CHI-Syracuse, two of coach cars were in the old style unrebuilt red inteior, and two had the new rebuilt blue interior. (With not one, but TWO outlets per window seat.) Their should be at least one car on the cardinal that is a rebuilt, and has electrical outlets. It's only a matter of finding that car to sit in, or if its not the car your assigned to sitting in their temperarily while your device charges.
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