Canadian here to offer an anecdote. I spent about 80 days road tripping and living out of the car with my gf between julyish to Nov in the US, coming from Vancouver. My car died near Fresno and I had about 2 days to figure out what to do with almost all of my posessions and find a way home. After considering our options we decided to take the train from Fresno to Vancouver with some heavy and annoying baggage, and then I'd later Train from Vancouver to Winnipeg for christmas.
Context out of the way, AmTrack was great and mostly on time with some killer scenery and no WiFi in economy. We really enjoyed the 30 hours or so plus the 2 hour bus ride. The train from Van to Winnipe was also fantastic in Economy, albeit a little uncomfortable and much more dated than the trains in Cali. It was just me solo, so I made some friends and got some work done, if I was single I'd maybe find a closer friend. Killer scenery. Highly recommended but it will cost you to be comfortable or pretentious.
Context out of the way, AmTrack was great and mostly on time with some killer scenery and no WiFi in economy. We really enjoyed the 30 hours or so plus the 2 hour bus ride. The train from Van to Winnipe was also fantastic in Economy, albeit a little uncomfortable and much more dated than the trains in Cali. It was just me solo, so I made some friends and got some work done, if I was single I'd maybe find a closer friend. Killer scenery. Highly recommended but it will cost you to be comfortable or pretentious.