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The deluxe sleeping car contains ten bedrooms, four roomettes, a family bedroom, and an accessible bedroom. [66] As built, the standard sleeping car could hold a maximum of 44 passengers. The Superliner I sleeping car weighs 167,000 pounds (75,750 kg); the Superliner II sleeping car weighs 160,275 pounds (72,700 kg).
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.
I spent 15 hours in a sleeper car on an Amtrak Superliner train going from Denver to Salt Lake City. For $400, I stayed in a private cabin, which had two seats during the day and two bunks at night.
The California Zephyr uses Superliner equipment like Amtrak's other long-distance trains in the Western United States. As of 2024, a typical California Zephyr has: [20] 2 GE Genesis/Siemens ALC-42 locomotives [21] Viewliner II baggage car; Superliner transition sleeper; 2 Superliner sleepers; Superliner diner; Superliner Sightseer Lounge; 1 ...
The Superliner Sightseer Lounge aboard the Southwest Chief. Amtrak operates two types of long-distance trains: single-level and bi-level. Due to height restrictions on the Northeast Corridor, all six routes that terminate at New York Penn Station operate as single-level trains with Amfleet coaches and Viewliner sleeping cars.
With the Superliner equipment, the consist would usually be two Superliner sleeping cars, a diner, a Sightseer Lounge, a baggage coach, and a coach. In 2002, two derailments on other routes took numerous Superliner cars out of service. Because of this, insufficient Superliner equipment was available for use on the Cardinal.
The Sightseer Lounge car has wrap-around windows on the upper level and an informal café on the lower. One dining and lounge car is reserved for sleeping car customers, while another also serves coach passengers. [41] Amtrak calls the Auto Train, whose total length is roughly 3 ⁄ 4-mile (1.2 km), the longest passenger train in the world. [42]
The transition sleeper, Sightseer Lounge, and one coach were removed during pandemic cutbacks. One sleeper and a second coach were removed in early 2023 due to Superliner shortages resulting from the introduction of the Winter Park Express and the Canadian National Railway requiring the Illini and Saluki to operate with Superliners. [27] Amtrak ...