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New York Central did keep the "room" side of sleepers facing toward the Hudson River --at least on the 20th Century Limited during its heyday. Most roads kept the "corridor" side toward the left or fireman's side of the train. This wasn't done so much to keep noise levels down in the rooms as it was to reduce the likelihood of injuries in the event a shifted load on a passing freight train impacted with the side of the passenger train. The theory was that fewer people were likely to be in the corridors than in the rooms. Since this is not entirely a comforting thought, the reason was not publicized beyond employees. With respect to side doors on passenger cars -- diners, cafe cars and club cars often had doors on one side of the car only. However, these were service doors, used to off-load trash and to on-load and off-load provisions. They weren't for use of passengers. New York Central did have some heavyweight and lightweight diners with vestibules and a door suitable for loading passengers on one side of the car only. I can't think of another road which did the same. New York Central also had one-side-only doors on its streamlined observation cars. These could be used as service doors, and also for quick exit by the flagman. Milwaukee Road also had one-side-only doors at the rear of its first 2 groups of streamlined parlor-observation cars. These were for use of the flagman only.
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