Comment by hn_throwaway_99
6 years ago
I think it's partially a chicken-or-the-egg problem. Honestly, I didn't even know these private rail cars existed until this article. I feel like if the Kardashians took a cross-country tour in one of these things and Instagrammed it that it would be all the rage.
You need a critical mass of volume though. You can get pretty nice suites on Amtrak today on the long-haul routes. It's admittedly not luxury in the sense of really first-class food and everyone dressing up but probably a nice slow travel experience so long as you don't care too much about arriving as scheduled. I'm not convinced there's that big a market for don't care about cost + don't care about time.