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According to Amtrak's car diagrams, which includes recommendations for the number of adults in each room, the Viewliner sleeping car has 11 roomettes, two bedrooms, and one ADA compliant room for sale.  One of the roomettes is held for the sleeping car attendant. If Amtrak's recommendations for occupancy are followed, there are 28 available spaces in the car. There are three cars a week westbound and three cars a week eastbound on the Cardinal for a total of 6 cars per week. This assumes one car per train, which I understand is the normal consist.  This means that there are 8,736 rooms for sale per year.  In FY13 the Cardinal carried 6,882 sleeping car passengers over at least one leg of the journey.  Thus, the average occupancy rate would have been 78.8 per cent, assuming an average of one passenger per room, it would have been 39.4 per cent assuming an average of two passengers per room, and it would have been 59.1 per cent assuming an average of 1.5 passengers per room.   If the Cardinal carried two sleepers during FY13, the number of rooms would have been 17,742 and the averages shown above would be halved. If it had more than one sleeper for a portion of the year, without knowing the dates that the second sleeper ran, it would be impossible to calculate the occupancy rate. However, it would fall somewhere between the average rates, depending on the assumptions, for two cars and one car. Also, if people stuffed more than two people in any room, i.e. children, then the actual car capacity is greater than the recommended capacity published by Amtrak.  I prefer a conservative calculation. Interestingly, on my most recent trip on the Texas Eagle from LAX, the car attendant occupied Roomette 1 in the 2230 car, which is a Superliner, as opposed to a room in the transition sleeper, which at one time was the practice.  Moreover, whereas the LAX car attendants used to get off the car in San Antonio, she rode through to Austin.  She told me that Amtrak prefers to have the LAX attendant stay on the train until it clears San Antonio.  Austin is the next location with good hotel accommodations.
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