Conductors can never sleep on an Amtrak train, at least while on duty. If they're traveling for fun, that's another matter.I believe that conductors never sleep on board but SCA's (unless its the AutoTrain- nonstop) stay up to accomodate passengers at all stops until there are no more sleeper passengers scheduled to board or sleepers scheduled to be sold. Then they can retire to their bedroom.
SCA's are guaranteed a minimum of 4 hours of uninterupted sleep by contract IIRC. That means that during the overnight hours a conductor or the attendant from the other sleeping car could board passengers and detrain passengers at stops along the way.
Many, although not all, sleeping car attendants who know each well will often trade off with one another to make their lives easier. What that means is for example on the Silver Star north from Miami, SCA #1 will remain awake for the bulk of the night, sleeping only in between stops and will work both sleeping cars at all stops. SCA #2 gets to sleep all night with no need to worry about their car. On the return trip back to Miami from NY, SCA #2 remains on duty all night for both sleepers, while SCA #1 gets to sleep all night. The issue here however is that you must really trust the other attendant because if they screw something up, like forgetting to waks someone for their stop in your car, you're still the person held responsible.
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