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How are the through cars transferred from the Texas Eagle to the Sunset Limited in San Antonio?  Hopefully 4merroad4man can respond to this question.  Since you are one of the Eagle engineers working the train between Austin and San Antonio, I presume you can describe the transfer process for us wannabe or would have been railroaders.  I have taken the Eagle through San Antonio to or from points west of there at least 15 times.  But I have always been asleep when they transfer the cars.  Well, sometimes the coupling was not super smooth and I woke for a minute, but it did not last.  I sleep like a log.  At one time, if I remember correctly, Amtrak had a contract switcher in San Antonio that transferred the cars.  Now, however, I am under the impression that they switch the cars using the power on the Eagle and Sunset.  Is this correct? At one time the Eagle through coach and sleeper were coupled to or uncoupled from the back of the Sunset?  Is this still the case or is the through sleeper placed at the front of the train and the coach on the back of the train?
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