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You know, I suspect that Amtrak, with what I believe is its built-in Washington DC-based lack of understanding of its West Coast markets, is actually seeing the Empire Builder as one long distance train, not two. They're saying "why does this train from Chicago to the little city of Seattle and it's small suburb Portland have four coaches, when the mighty Southwest Chief to Los Angeles has only two." To me, that's the only way that switching second Seattle coach to the Southwest Chief in the middle of the summer season makes sense.