If there pulling equipment off a train set to use as a hotel, that would be a plan. However nobody has gotten the numbers off the sleeper, so everyone is make a assuming how it happens. I am assuming there using spare equipment, other are assuming there use equipment off a inbound trainset.I think the disconnect here is that some are thinking that these are DEDICATED sleepers where all they're doing is sitting at CHI plugged in and waiting for late trains 24/7.
The concept is, the sleepers that came in on that day's train, aren't leaving until tomorrow anyway. Unless the car needs shopping for some *ahem* "work" in the Chicago yard, that car is going to spend the night dark, cold, and empty in the yard anyway. Why not use it?
One is a plan the other is a waste of equipment. A better use of equipment would be the a drop sleeper in Denver. Which of course requires three sleepers, not the two that I was thinking of.
So someone need to hang on in Chicago and get some numbers and track equipment, to see what is fact.