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[quote user="Deggesty"] [quote user="Maglev"]On most of the Amtrak long distance trains I have ridden, the on-board service crew stays for the entire trip.  I remember once on the California Zephyr our sleeper attendant changed en-route; she made a point of telling everyone because this was not the usual practice (and she wanted her share of any tips?).[/quote] Yes, except for the Texas Eagle, I do not know of any exception except for the on-board service crews on the Texas Eagle, who change at San Antonio. I do not remember our attendant saying anything about her getting off at San Antonio when we rode from Chicago to Los Angeles several years ago. Her relief was much friendlier. Johnny[/quote] On the Texas Eagle (21 & 22) in Texas, the engineer changes at Marshall, Fort Worth and Austin.  The Austin driver takes the train to San Antonio or brings it from San Antonio to Austin.  It must be one of the shortest legs on Amtrak's long haul system.  I think the rationale for changing drivers in Austin has to do with the time keeping problems experienced by the Eagle, which have pretty much been corrected by the reduction in freight traffic due to the recession, but I am not sure. The conductor and train persons change at Marshall and Fort Worth.  The Fort Worth crew goes through to San Antonio and vice versa for the San Antonio crew. The sleeping car and coach attendants service their cars from Chicago to San Antonio as does the lounge car attendant.  However, the dinning car crew gets off at Austin.  Thus, there is no breakfast service in the dinning car leaving San Antonio, and sleeping car passengers are served a cold breakfast.  It was lousy the last two times that I had it.    The attendant for the through Eagle sleeper to or from Los Angeles is or at least was a LA based crew member.  He or she gets off or on the train in San Antonio.  On the east bound run the LA crew member stays on the sleeper until approximately 6:00 a.m., when he or she is relieved by the person who will service the car to Chicago.  I am not sure when the crew change occurs on the west bound run.  Although Amtrak shows the Eagle as a Chicago to LA train, their doing so is disingenuous.  Two cars (sleeper and coach) are transferred to the Sunset Limited, which at least for now is the real through train.
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