Half amfleet/horizon and half superliner ever been done before?

[homersimpson101]

Has there ever been an Amtrak train comprising of horizon/amfleet cars and Superliners joined together with a Transition Sleeper car? Basically one level passenger cars, a transition sleeper car, and bi-level passenger cars?

 

[railiner]

Has there ever been an Amtrak train comprising of horizon/amfleet cars and Superliners joined together with a Transition Sleeper car? Basically one level passenger cars, a transition sleeper car, and bi-level passenger cars?

There was way back before there were Amfleet or Horizon cars.
When Amtrak began in 1971, they continued operating most trains the same way their former host railroads did, so the Santa Fe practice of combining the single level Super Chief, with the Hi Level El Capitan on the Chicago - Los Angeles run continued on the Amtrak Super Chief, using the same equipment.

 

[zephyr17]

The Desert Wind operated with a mix of Superliners, Hi Levels, Amfleets and Heritage for a while in the very early 1980s. They used a Hi Level transition coach (that had not yet been converted to have dorm rooms on the transition end) to do it. I rode it in early 1981 and it was a Superliner coach, a Hi Level transition coach, an AmCafe and a Heritage 10-6. It could be a really oddball train in its first few years. Unfortunately, I didn't really appreciate it at the time and I seem to recall being vaguely pissed off at its weirdness.

That predated the Superliner II trandorms by more than a decade, though.

I do not think transdorms were ever used that way in regular revenue service. The only thing that comes to mind was an executive "grand tour" a few years ago, where they used a transdorm running "backwards" so they could run the Beech Grove biz car, which is pretty much a blinged out Amfleet, to hook onto Superliner trains. I think it was shortly before COVID and may have been during Anderson's Reign of Ignorance.