Take the Night Train

摘要

On certain Amtrak routes, business travel via sleeper can make a lot of sense. But only if you know the tricks. Few readers, we'll wager, have climbed into bed aboard a train. Though Amtrak reported a 10%-to-15% uptick in ridership systemwide after Sept. 11, long-haul routes still take too much time to be attractive to most business travelers: Los Angeles to Seattle, for example, takes two whole days— which is astonishing, considering you can drive the 1,136 miles in 20 hours. Yet hidden in the timetable are other routes that do make sense, when you consider you can sleep while traveling.