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The Texas Eagle makes two stops at Taylor, as well as several other stations in Texas, if it is entraining or detraining first class and coach passengers. Taylor has a very short ADA compliant platform.  It has a longer non-compliant platform, but the crews don't use it to load passengers, in part because of the verification process described below. Detraining passengers are permitted to get off the train onto the non-ADA portions of the platform, if the coach attendant opens the door and places a step stool on the platform. Numbers 21 and 22 have the sleeper ahead of the dinning and lounge cars. The train stops first for sleeping car passengers. Once they are on-board, it pulls ahead and stops again for coach passengers.   The conductor examines each passenger's ticket before he or she is permitted to board the Eagle. They do it at the ADA compliant platform to cover any mobility challenged passengers. Having the conductor verify each ticket before a passenger boards the train is a TSA requirement. After the conductor looks at the ticket, the car attendant looks at it and directs the passenger to her room or gives the coach passenger a seat check and tells him which car to sit in. Once the train is underway, the conductor will check each coach seat passenger to be sure that she has placed the seat check above her seat.  He is also checking to see who is getting off at the next stop. This takes about 10 minutes.   If coach passengers board through the sleeper, they have to walk through the lounge and dinning cars with their luggage to get to one of three coaches. This can be a minor albeit not insurmountable problem. If sleeping car passengers entrain through a coach, they have to tote their luggage through the dinning and lounge cars to their room, although one would think that the sleeping car attendant could handle this problem.   Another reason for the two stops, so I was told by a UP employee, who may or may not know what he is talking about, is because Amtrak does not want coach passengers walking through the sleeper, thereby potentially disturbing the first class passengers.
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