I'm not sure where to put this post. It's about travel, but trip reports are by European country, and this report is about travel in the US, but it does relate to subject discussed on the transportation forum.
Last week I flew from Denver to Reno to visit my brother, then came back to Denver on the California Zephyr (Amtrak night train).
On this website, we talk a lot about checked vs carry-on bags. I flew on Southwest, which has free checked bags. It seemed like there were still a lot of people carrying on bags. There was a sizer, of sorts, at the gate. It was not a box, but an 'L' shaped template with a silhouette on the vertical part and a footprint on the horizontal part. I checked my bag on it; it fit (no surprise). I didn't see anyone else checking their bags, and I saw a lot of bags carried on that would not have passed. So much for enforcing the regulations.
We had a sleeper on the trip back. I'm not sure it was worth the extra cost for the en-suite bathroom. It was hard to use it in the crowded compartment, and it was very small. The bathroom on the hall, for use by roomettes, was bigger.
Other than that, the trip was great. The meals, which were included, were very good; service was great. I had no problem sleeping. And once we got to Colorado in the morning, the scenery was spectacular.