Originally Posted by
seat38a
They started this late last year. The Superliner Coach car was moved next to the business class car and now used for overflow business class. At first, I believe they used the whole car for business class, but couple months later, Amtrak added a divider curtain with only half the car used for business class and the other half for coach.
That's what the conductor said (started around September 2016), but the photos linked downthread show that this car has been in service on the Surfliner before.
Is the interior of the car original? Hard to believe if so, since the condition seemed very good.