Me too. Although, I wouldn't mind if the SCA"s could scan it
A punch should appear in the appropriate line of the e-Ticket image
I would doubt that would happen. Unlike VIA Rail, there is a very clear division of craft responsibilities, between the operating train crew, and the on board services employees, as per their union contracts. An attendant may inform the conductor of a passenger's presence according to the manifest, but the actual lift or scan of the ticket would be by the conductor, or assistant....
The additional script to do this is actually not that hard as long as the data on lifting status is easily accessible.
I had no impression of the conductor being confrontational, just confused by the room being occupied.
I don't imagine that Amtrak releases such stats.
Newer ones are now available pretty easily. Very often organizations or agencies don't make things available on public sites, because it isn't worth the time or effort to make a tiny audience happy. Or the culture of the agency supports secrecy for no intelligent reason. I have a cousin who needed some information from an old FBI investigation (80 years prior) for a book he was writing. They were being their normal obstructionist self righteous idiots. So my cousin sued them in Federal Court and won. Not wanting to be beaten, the FBI appealed to the DC Circuit, and fought to preserve their ability to shield documents from public view, and ultimately prevailed. Since the majority of the material was later discovered to be public record available through the National Archives, it only serves to remind us how some of our tax dollars are spent. An interesting read about a murder of an anthropologist that took place on a reservation in 1931, not a national security interest kind of story.
I imagine if finding out is important enough to do the research, you could do fake bookings each day to see how many are available, until you get an idea...?
Travel will need to stabilize more before any measurement is relevant.
