Seaboard92
Engineer
The only railroad that I can think of that ran sleepers forward was the Seaboard Airline. Of course I don't know if there were any other examples. With the amount of thru cars it wouldn't surprise me if there were.
It sounds like that's still the answer.We once asked our Sleeping Car Attendant who or what decided how the sleepers on the Southwest Chief were orientated. (On some of our trips, the view from our bedroom was from the engineer’s side of the train and on other trips, it was from the fireman’s side.) He told us that it all depended upon how the train was made up.
Yep.We once asked our Sleeping Car Attendant who or what decided how the sleepers on the Southwest Chief were orientated. (On some of our trips, the view from our bedroom was from the engineer’s side of the train and on other trips, it was from the fireman’s side.) He told us that it all depended upon how the train was made up.
On the Twentieth Century Limited, the bedroom windows ALWAYS looked out on the Hudson River.
Eric & Pat
Yeah, Brian Rosenwald is sorely missed. He understood long distance passenger service and made many improvements as the head of Amtrak West.I understand the impresario of the Starlight’s rebirth with Pacific Parlour Cars in the 1990s insisted that the sleeping car bedrooms all face the ocean in each direction. Sadly, such managerial inspiration is almost unknown at today’s Amtrak.
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