all cars on palmetto had 19 rows?

[echo]

I took the palmetto on a 4 hour ride... theres no legroom for someone like me... I am only 6 foot 2....

I walked from beginning to end... all the car had 19 rows... I remember reading somewhere on this forum that the palmetto had lots of legroom? Business claa car was the same as coach car

 

[Anthony]

The Palmetto typically has a mixture of Amfleet I and Amfleet II equipment. The legroom in the Palmetto's business class car is similar to that of an Amfleet II coach. I'm 6'3" and the legroom is very generous in that equipment. If you were in an Amfleet I coach, you'd have more of a squeeze, but it's noticeably a denser seating arrangement.

 

[echo]

I was under the impressuon that some of the coach cars are more spacious? But I wonde why all the coach day on that day were identical 19 rows..

Oh well....

 

[MattW]

I'm 6'4" with extremely long legs, to the point where I've only found a single model vehicle that I can fit in so far, and I've found Amfleet I and II equipment to have ample legroom. You must have even longer legs!

 

[xyzzy]

Amfleet I coaches have 72 seats. Amfleet I business class cars -- aside from Club-Dinettes which are almost never assigned to the Palmetto -- have 62 seats. Amfleet II coaches have 59 seats. If business class happens to be assigned to an Amfleet II coach, it's still 59 seats.

The Palmetto consists usually have a mix of Amfleet I for "shorts", Amfleet II for passengers riding more than 200 miles (just a rough cutoff), and the business class car which is usually Amfleet II (but not always).

It would be very unusual for the Palmetto to put business class passengers into a 72-seat Amfleet I coach, but it could happen.

So the bottom line is, "your mileage may vary".

 

[henryj]

Do any of you guys ever fly? Not in coach I presume.

 

[xyzzy]

Haha, I fly coach transatlantic at least one roundtrip a month, sometimes two.

 

[Bob Dylan]

Do any of you guys ever fly? Not in coach I presume.

Henry, I'm a Million Mile Flyer but I havent been in Biz Class or First Class in 12 Years! Every Flight I've taken since 2001 (About 25)was in Coach and it gets Worse Every Time! Being on a Superliner, whether in Coach or in a Sleeper, is Heaven Compared to Coach Travel on today's Airlines! Rich Folks and Business Travelers might feel differently up Front in the High Priced Seats!!

 

[crescent2]

Travel in coach on a Viewliner train is heaven compared to airline coach travel, too! (I know only the sleepers are "Viewliner," but I don't recall the type of coach cars. But they are waaay better than air travel.)