There will be a MIA coach attendant on the entire trip. In the case of the Silver Service trains, the coach ridership is extremely high for one person to manage and keep restrooms clean for a 20 plus hour trip. When you have multiple people working the coaches in the day, you can spread the work, provide more attentive service to people and restrooms. During the overnight hours, you always have a least one attendant available to clean thoroughly during the overnight hours and help with keeping doors closed, lights turned off and helping elderly and children in the dark. With one attendant, you have a period of four to five hours at night without available services and no help for those who need it, especially in the evening.
With the old timers being the only ones remaining employed on Silver Service trains, the average service provided by attendants now will disappear. In my personal experience, when I worked my first coach job which was by myself on the Crescent, the report time was 6 am and I worked all the way to Greensboro at around 3 am. After taking a shower and getting a two and a half hour nap, wakeup at Lynchburg and work all the way to New York around 2:30 pm, I was dead. Now ask a very tired person to clean the bathrooms every hour, provide at seat meal service for disabled passengers and move hundreds of carry-on bags, you think you're going to get service with a smile! That's my point. Consistant labor reductions kill service, regardless of how much you adjust one's job description and reduce ones time to rest enroute. :angry: