• Luggage: Two bags as carry-on (food, reading materials, camera, binoculars, or even a cooler) and two bags in checked luggage (sleeping bags, tent)
• 32" suitcase = 2 sleeping bags, tent

• smaller suitcase = clothes for Sunday-Tuesday
• carry-on backpack = Saturday change of clothes, washcloth. book, crossword book, phone-charger, water, travel blanket,toothbrush/toothpaste, socks, flip flops, ear plugs, sunglasses, neck pillow, secret beer?
• A-Camp by Rail: An Ode to Amtrak

http://www.autostraddle.com/a-camp-by-rail-an-ode-to-amtrak-137149/

• Tips, Tricks & Destinations: An Amtrak Travel Guide

https://spnzr.com/aboard-amtrak/tips-tricks-destinations-amtrak-travel-guide/

• IF YOU are normal and philosophical, if you love your country, if you are willing to learn how little you count in the eternal scheme of things, go ride in the Rocky Mountains and save your soul. ~Great Northern Travel Brochure, 1928