How many People can fit in the Sleeper?

[jordon412]

I need a little help finding out what type of sleeping accomadations there are and how many people can fit in each one. I'm planning on making several sleeping cars able to haul people and need to know how many people I should put in each car. Here's the sleeping cars:

A 6-6-4 sleeper
A 4-4-2 sleeper
A 10-6 sleeper
A 10-1-2 sleeper
A 12-1 sleeper
An 18 Roomette sleeper

Any help will be greatly appreciated

 

[fran1]

Might help, plus there are links further down.

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=73450

 

[AJ_Fox]

On modern day sleeping cars with Amtrak, there are the deluxe staterooms which have a double bed lower berth and arguably a double upper berth, but unless you're real close with your bedmate in the upper berth, I would say one is better. The roomettes comfortably fit one person with the fold down seats. Down below there are some sleeping accommodations, including one family room at one end. The deluxe staterooms have private bath and shower with lavatory. There is also an easy chair. The others share a common bathroom. The numbered arrangements you listed above seem to apply to older rolling stock, or east coast rolling stock that don't have the double decked sleepers. The numbers there refer to how many accommodations are in each sleeper, and how many each can accommodate.

Cheers

AJ

 

[jordon412]

I need this info to make magicland's Illinois Central Panama Limited passenger cars able to load and unload passengers and carry the same amount of people that the prototype did. I also need this info for his IC dining car <kuid:58843:10051>, IC coach <kuid2:58843:10060:1>, IC Baggage/Dorm <kuid:58843:10050>, IC Lounge <kuid:58843:10058>, IC dining car <kuid:58843:10051>, and IC Observation <kuid:58843:10059>.
I also need this info for magicland's SP Daylight Articulated Diner (3) <kuid:58843:104>, SP Daylight Articulated Diner Kitchen (2) <kuid:58843:109>, SP Daylight Articulated Coffee Shop (1) <kuid:58843:108>, and SP Daylight Tavern <kuid:58843:95>.

 

[jordon412]

Let's see if I've got this correct:
A roomette is for 1 person
A section is for 2 people
A bedroom is for 2 people
A double bedroom is for 4 people
A drawing room is for 3 people
A compartment is for 2 people

A 6-6-4 sleeper means 6 sections, 6 roomette and 4 double bedrooms
A 3-1-1 sleeper means 3 double bedrooms, 1 drawing room and 1 compartment
A 2-4-4 sleeper means 2 drawing rooms, 4 compartments and 4 double bedrooms
A 2-1-2 sleeper means 2 double bedrooms, 1 drawing room and 2 compartments

Is this correct?

 

[whitepass]

Most of the time not all cars were full, no one liked upper booths and some car types like diners had passengers from the sleepers. Dorm cars were for employs not passenger.

 

[jordon412]

I've narrowed the number of cars that I need to know how many people ride in it:
1. IC Lounge <kuid:58843:10058>. I know that the max capacity of the lounge car varies, but is there like an average number of people in a lounge car? Is there something like 'most lounge cars carry 'x' (x represents a number) people'?
2. IC Coach <kuid2:58843:10060:1>. Is there something like 'most coaches carry 'x' (x represents a number) people'?
3. SP Daylight Articulated Diner (3) <kuid:58843:104>
4. SP Daylight Articulated Diner Kitchen (2) <kuid:58843:109>
5. SP Daylight Articulated Coffee Shop (1) <kuid:58843:108>
6. SP Daylight Tavern <kuid:58843:95>

 

[JCitron]

See this.

http://youtu.be/jdq5TKs4-kA

John

 

[jordon412]

Ha ha, very funny: a link to a video that seems to have no connection to this post: A Laural & Hardy video.

 

[JCitron]

Ha ha, very funny: a link to a video that seems to have no connection to this post: A Laural & Hardy video.

Watch it through... How many people can fit in a sleeping car.

John