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Can someone help with how the cars are loaded on the train. I know the 1st two are the train number and the last two the car number, is higher the number the father back, is 30 next to the crew sleeper, or is it next to the dinner, what about car number on train 30 its car 01, anyway here is what I am booked in Chi/Lax on 3 0331, Lax/chi on 422 its 2230, and Chi/Was on 30 its 3001.
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In my experience, cars are numbered from the diner outward. If the sleepers are at the front, the "30" car is just ahead of the diner. If the sleepers are at the rear, the "30" car is immediately behind the diner. Ditto for coaches, except they're numbered in the 10s instead of the 30s.
Except I've usually noticed that the coaches begin with "11" instead of "10."
Anyway, the higher the car number, the farther from the diner.
I don't know about train #30 and car 3001, though.
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I just checked my "stash" of ticket stubs and as I thought 3000 would be the first sleeper and 3001 the second. If there is a third it would be 3002. 3000 is closest to the diner.
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I think the "xx01", "xx02", etc. are used on eastern trains (primarily Viewliners), while the "xx30," "xx31," etc. are used on western Superliner trains.
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On one east coast train, the LSL eastbound, the numbering on the Viewliner sleepers has been 4810, 4811, 4812, progressively away from the dining car and toward the front of the train.
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On the Capitol we always get car 2900 West and 3000East. We have always been next to the diner.
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On the Empire Builder, 0730 was up front next to the diner, 0731 was next door but closer to the engine, and 2730 (the "Portland" sleeper) was at the opposite end of the same train.
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Back when there were two sections to the Lakeshore, the Boston sleeper would carry 4920 reporting marks and the New York sleepers 4910, 4911, and in the summer, 4912. Coaches tend to carry 4940 onward. The lounge was supposed to be 4930, but now that the lounge is the dining car, the dining car is absent, and a third of the Amfleet II lounges have had the reporting windows painted over or removed entirely, it depends on the train. Most crews don't worry about those outside of where they are used (sleepers only) anyway. Interesting variations in coach (I guess some people get bored on the can): 6969, 911, ____, 123, et cetera.
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I saw this thread and clicked on it hoping that Amtrak might be about to somehow get some new sleeping cars.
Darn.
-------------------- David Pressley
Advocating for passenger trains since 1973!
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