Amtrak should have considered adding "Crew Dorms" to the viewliner baggage cars. (or did they?) Anyway, back in the day, on the Chief, and other trains, we had "dorm cars", which were sections of some other cars that had community bunks, sometimes THREE HIGH. Sure, it sucked not having your own room, privacy and all, but it worked, Only staff who got thier own rooms was staff that was issued a "bank", or funds to make change. Hence LSA's and Stewards got their own rooms, as did the Chef and Train Manager (if there was one)
That was one of the main reasons I took and passed the LSA test. That, and to make more in tips! Like others have seen me post before. Never spent a spent a paycheck in three years, lived off tips and extra-board.