Unfortunately, the sleeper cars are often quite expensive (I recently did DC to LA via Chicago and if I remember correctly the sleeper car price was about 2.5x

Unfortunately, the sleeper cars are often quite expensive (I recently did DC to LA via Chicago and if I remember correctly the sleeper car price was about 2.5x what a flight would have cost me). But totally agreed if they could get the cost down for a nice sleeper car to a reasonable level