Devil's Advocate
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You sure showed me. I guess I should never underestimate the sheer ingeniousness of the Excuses Unlimited forum.Suppose Mr A has a medical incident in the Lounge car and the crew needs to find Mrs A ASAP. Would help if the crew knew which order the cars are lined up to facilitate finding Mrs A in her room(ette). Oh, by the way, using the PA to page her won't help because she's deaf/HoH.
That's ok, the conductor's phone will have active maps of the entire train that will lead Mr. Magoo right to the correct seat. The electronic sign above the seat will have the passengers name and destination and there will be a flashing light next to the ejection button that even a half blind conductor could hone in on. There will also be electronic handcuffs that will keep all passengers in their assigned seats so that the conductors can't possibly get it wrong.So at 2:30 AM or so the conductor walks to the car next to the diner, forgetting that in order to please passengers that want to pick a specific side of the train for their room, that the car next to the dining car for this trip is really the 11 car and he proceeds to wake up the wrong person in an attempt to get them off the train.
At the moment little if any attention is paid to the actual numbers on the cars. The customers have no idea what they mean and the staff don't even bother to look at them. Basically they serve no purpose. But oh dear god if someone ever changed it all hell would break lose. h34r:Or less extreme, passenger comes into the diner not remembering what their car number is, now the crew has to remember that the 11 car is next to the diner instead of the normal 10 car. It just creates unnecessary confusion for the crew. The cars are number in order for a reason.