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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Now that a 10RM-1SP-2BR + Att & Shower configuration has been announced, as well as plans to reconfigure the existing 50 car fleet (hopefully 52 with a return to revenue service of prototypes 2400-01), one has to wonder how much NET additional space Amtrak is gaining? Let's first address Roomettes and lets ASSUME (let's can the jokes regarding that term; remember I've been Service and I've heard 'em before) that six Roomettes per train are presently reserved for Dining Car crew; also let's assume that the entire 50 car fleet is needed to support the existing assignments. The loss of two Roomettes per car for presumably four communal potties represents (50 X 2 = 150) a loss of 100 rooms for the existing fleet. The 25 Dorms added will enable 150 rooms to be released, and the 25 new cars with 10 each means 250 additional rooms; or a NET gain of 300 Roomettes. Since only seventeen sets are in service, with eight sets "resting', this means 170 more Roomettes are available systemwide each day. No question there is a net gain of 50 rooms (25 X 2) for the fleet, or 34 (17 X 2) per day; also 25 or 17 Special rooms. Now where I must question Amtrak's reasoning is with regards to Special Rooms (I think Handicapped is a now a non-term). I would think that the new cars should have been 10RM-4BR (assuming the SP represents 2BR) and that twenty existing cars be reconfigured same (the LSL will need two SP in each set). I realize this is a "touchy' with a publicly funded agency (and possibly even with some Members here), but it is my understanding that only one SP per train is required and that can be released for general sale 24 hrs prior to departure if not booked by a qualifying party. It was one thing to have standardization when there were only fifty cars, but with more and with only Card and Bos LS having a single car, should not this decision be reviewed? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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