Originally Posted by
boxo
I am trying to determine which side of the car I'll be on for Coast Starlight leaving Los Angeles. My roomette number is 3. Are the train cars always hitched in the same orientation? If I'm going by the orientation of my recent California Zephyr trip west from Denver in Roomette 2, then my CS roomette is on the non-coastal side.
I got lucky. My roomette was on the coast side.
Originally Posted by
dhammer53
When you board, ask the SCA (sleeping car attendant) if there's a Roomette on the 'better' side that he can switch you to.
My car attendant wasn't very good at attending. She pretty much only came by twice - once for lunch orders and then for dinner orders. But after we left SLO, I asked if I could take video of the horseshoe curve from an empty roomette on the other side and she said I could go to the diner because the rooms are sanitized.