Four nights on Amtrak - one back in 2002 or so on the California Zephyr, from Denver to Chicago. Had a roomette on that one - don't recall sleeping very well, but not why that was.
Only other trip involving nights was New York to Tucson in 2013, Lake Shore Limited (coach), Texas Eagle and Sunset Limited (roomette on those legs). Coach was rough - mainly since, as in Curt's story, we had a wheel with a flat spot. Thump-thump-thump all night long. Roomette was much better - good sleep both nights, though interrupted in a good way in San Antonio for the switching move.
After the move, the sleeper I was in was the last car in the consist - nice view out the window in the rear door, from the corridor.
When I was a young child (around 1964), family took the train from Chicago to Denver to visit paternal grandmother. The only thing I recall from the trip was being scared to walk from car to car.
These are rather poor pix, but here's a couple of the roomette on the 2013 trip, as we were waiting to depart Chicago, and a shot from the rear of the train. I THINK we were climbing out of El Paso.
David
