Does anyone know the width of Superliner coach seats? My in-laws are taking us to Hawaii in a couple weeks (One place Amtrak will never go) and I'm told the coach seats on the plane are 18". I am just curious to compare them.
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Let's see. . . according to the 2002 Amtrak Travel Planner, a Superliner standard room is 3'6" (or 42") wide.
Since two side-by-side coach seats span pretty much the same distance, I guess that would make each coach seat about 21" wide (including the armrests).
Sorry to hear you have to get on a plane. But have a good trip.
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Posted by coach34135 (Member # 1979) on :
if only they'd build a really looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong bridge over the ocean hehehee
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Posted by RRRICH (Member # 1418) on :
......or an American version of the "Chunnel" to Hawaii!! Hah!
--REK
Posted by traveler (Member # 1415) on :
I've been told they are the width of an airplane business class seat. My desk chair feels to be about the same width (22"). Train seat is longer under the legs. In any event they are sufficiently wide and, in my experience, very comfortable, and way wider than the average airline coach class seat, except some American Air Line planes the number and manufacturer of which I cannot remember. I'm 5'9" 165 lbs.
Posted by Surfer (Member # 1980) on :
quote:Originally posted by coach34135: if only they'd build a really looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong bridge over the ocean hehehee
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No, becuase the proper way to cross the ocean would be via an Ocean Liner.
Posted by DC2001 (Member # 542) on :
quote:Originally posted by RRRICH: ......or an American version of the "Chunnel" to Hawaii!! Hah!
--REK
That's actually been seriously (sort of) proposed. Some years ago I remember reading about a research project (called Planetran, or something like that) which placed vacuum-tunnels with ultra high-speed "trains" at several thousand (6,000?) mph. I am not making this up.
The proposal was New York to L.A., but with under-ocean tunnels a theoritical possibility. Of course, by conventional standards these are "trains" in name only, but it's certainly intriguing. There should be some info somewhere on the web.
Of course, this has little to do with Superliner coach seats...
Posted by efin98 (Member # 1943) on :
here is a tie-in for the topic: the seats that would be needed for a train that travelled that fast would have to be at least 25-33% bigger than the superliner seats. Thats just to accomodate all the extra padding which would be needed to allow for a person to be comfortably compressed due to the G-Forces that would be asserted by the speed. But man, what I wouldnt give to have those seats in coach class on a long distance train!