Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Eleven Superliner I coaches were rebuilt as "snack coaches". These retained the 62 seats on the upper level but removed the lower-level seating in favor of a snack bar and lounge seats. [70] [71] Amtrak rebuilt 34 of the coach-baggage cars as "smoking coaches" in 1996 and 1997. [72] The baggage room was converted to a self-contained specially ...
The 72 standard coaches could seat between 76 and 82 passengers depending on the seating configuration and 14 accessible coaches could seat 72 and included space for a wheelchair. [2] The entire coach fleet was later rebuilt to be accessible, with cars now seating between 68 and 72 passengers depending on the seating configuration.
90 passengers (coach cars) Operators: Amtrak & Caltrans as Amtrak California: Depots: Los Angeles, Oakland: Lines served: Pacific Surfliner, Capitol Corridor, San Joaquin: Specifications; Car length: 85 ft 0 in (25.91 m) Width: 10 ft 2 in (3.10 m) Height: 16 ft 2 in (4.93 m) Entry: Step: Doors: 2 sets of bi-parting automatic doors per side ...
The cafés had a snack bar in the middle of the car and 53 coach seats; the dinettes had eight booths and 23 coach seats. [58] Each café car weighs about 110,000 pounds (50,000 kg). [5] The Amcafe design was unpopular and Amtrak rebuilt the cafés into numerous configurations during the 1980s and 1990s. [61]
The 68-seat coaches featured "step down" stairs at one end to permit access to standard-height equipment; that space was given over to four additional seats on the 72-seat coaches. [7] The prototypes also featured step-down stairs, but carried one fewer passenger. [58] The passenger windows were 21 inches (53 cm) high.
Western railways (and some Eastern lines) chose to redesign the coach seat for greater width and comfort, with the result that by the time U.S. passenger rail transport was nationalized, railway coach seats provided, at a basic price, comfort available only in first-class on airlines. Amtrak used these popular cars well into the 1990s.
Amtrak retained one, Ocean View, as part of its business car fleet and for special use on regular routes, [7] [8] [9] such as the Downeaster service during leaf peeping season. [10] Ocean View was retired in 2019 by Amtrak, due to the age and expense of maintaining the Great Dome Car. [ 11 ]
A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (Indian English) [1] is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers, usually giving them space to sit on train seats.