I paid $2,200 for a bedroom on a 53-hour Amtrak train. The 50-square-foot space with a full bathroom was worth the price.

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The author standing smiling in the Amtrak bedroom with a bunk bed in the background
Business Insider's reporter spent 53 hours on Amtrak's California Zephyr train in a bedroom accommodation.

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