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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.
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]
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 ...
Surfliner cars were delivered in several types: coach cars, café/coach cars equipped for food sales on the lower level, business-class cars which have two small galleys to allow an attendant to offer complimentary beverage service, and coach/baggage/cab cars equipped with coach seating, a checked baggage space on the lower level, and engineer ...
A line of Amtrak Midwest Siemens Venture cars in Chicago's 14th Street Coach Yard. Illinois , Michigan , Missouri , and Wisconsin have ordered 97 Venture cars for the Amtrak Midwest routes, including the Blue Water , Hiawatha , Illini and Saluki , Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg , Lincoln Service , Missouri River Runner , Pere Marquette , and ...
Amtrak operates a fleet of 2,142 railway cars and 425 locomotives for revenue runs and service, collectively called rolling stock.Notable examples include the GE Genesis and Siemens Charger diesel locomotives, the Siemens ACS-64 electric locomotive, the Amfleet series of single-level passenger cars, the Superliner series of double-decker passenger cars, and 20 Acela Express high-speed trainsets.
Amfleet II coaches began replacing older coaches on the Broadway Limited in 1982 and the Lake Shore Limited in 1983, and Heritage Fleet coaches were gone from the latter by 1990. Viewliner sleeping cars replaced Heritage Fleet sleepers in the 1990s. [5]: 34 Nevertheless, some Heritage Fleet cars remained in use into the 21st century.
6 coach/baggage cars were built for Amtrak California and all are named after bays. [8] The layout of upper level of the coach/baggage cars is identical to the coach cars with 76 seats, 6 tables and 2 club seating areas. The lower level has 7 seats, one wheelchair position, [9] one restroom and a locked compartment used to store checked baggage ...