Moving around on-board

[OlympianHiawatha]

I've been known on several occasions to pour a beer I brought on into one of the Amtrak plastic juice cups back in my Sleeper and carry it to the Lounge to relax. No one has said a thing about it.

 

[TrulyTracy]

How about this...

I am traveling with my husband and 2 children. We are using the USA Rail Passes and spending much of our 15 days on trains. We have booked 1 Superliner Roomette for several of our legs, in the names of me and my daughter, but I thought we could sort of share it with my husband and son. For example, I was thinking that maybe my daughter and I would eat a big lunch (using the meal that comes with the room) and then my husband and son would have the big dinner. Or that at times, we might change who was sitting in Coach and who was in the sleeper. It would always be my daughter and I doing the actual sleeping. Thoughts? Is this allowed?

 

[Ryan]

By the rules? No.

In practice? Not likely. A good diner crew and sleeping car attendant is going to know who belongs in the room and who doesn't, so you're depending on their generosity and willingness to operate outside the lines. I'm sure that someone will come along and say "it's fine and I've done it", but I would treat that as the exception and not the norm.

 

[Peter KG6LSE]

I saw a conductor on the Coast Starlight come through a sleeper and start kicking people out who did not hold a ticket, threatening to kick them off the train if they came back to the sleepers. A few minutes later, they made an announcement over the PA reminding people that the sleepers were off-limits if you didn't have a sleeper ticket for that car.

I Have noticesd the CS conductors have a PA fetish .

it borders on airline at times .

Peter

 

[LeeA]

According to one SCA on a Silver trip from WPB to RGH they had a problem with coach passengers "visiting a friend in a sleeper" who were part of an organized crime group attempting (apparently on occasion successfully) going into sleepers and robbing some of the sleeper pax belongings. Not sure if that is true but, that was the story related and our SCA was dilligent in keeping pax not in our sleeper out of it.

Your mileage may vary and some assembly may be required.

That would not surprise me at all. When I worked at the airport in WPB we had a problem with an organized crime group that would come into baggage claim and take sets of golf clubs off the baggage belts. We resorted to having an agent pull all of the golf clubs off our flights and required passengers to show their claim stubs in order to get the clubs. Of course, some passengers complained, but most appreciated our making sure their clubs didn't walk out the door with the wrong person!

 

[bobnabq]

Here's my 2¢ (I'll pay on the way out)

I'm thinking Amtrak doesn't want any sleeper car to become a party car.