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From: dennis@CSNET-SH.ARPA (Dennis Rockwell)
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Subject: Re: \"A Design Proposal That Would Make Passenger Planes Safe\"
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 11:31:11 EST
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Most (if not all) of the seating *is* reversible; on the Oakland-to-Portland
USENIX run, we played with spinning the seats around.  This was on an Amtrak
Superliner coach (Thanks to Ed Gould of mt xinu!  It was great!).
Unfortunately, with one seat turned around, there's not enough leg room for
two people facing unless your knees are on friendly terms.

On a recent D.C. to Boston run the conductor said that the seating was
reversible (this was on an Amcoach), but that they just turn the whole train
around at the Boston end because it was faster and easier.

After doing model railroading, it's very scary to watch a train of a dozen
or more long coaches *backing* out of South Station and around the (very
tightly curved) reversing loop.

Dennis