PASSENGER TRAIN EQUIPMENT - All Aboard: The Complete North American Train Travel Guide - page 156

Pacific Parlor Car
So far, these cars are only found on the Coast Starlight on the run
between Los Angeles and Seattle, but what a delight they are!
The upper level includes a small kitchen and bar, table seating for
a dozen or so passengers, and a lounge area with comfortable,
overstuffed seating. There is a large flat-screen TV set up in a
viewing room on the lower level. These cars are for the exclu-
sive use of sleeping-car passengers, who can choose to take their
meals here or in the adjacent dining car.
Superliner Cross Country Café Cars
These relatively new additions to the Superliner fleet were
intended to provide both dining facilities and lounge amenities all
in one car. They look very nice—a modern and stylish design—
but personally I don't think seating in the dining area is as com-
fortable as the old tried-and-true dining-car configuration with
tables for four. Cross Country Café cars are currently being used
on the City of New Orleans and the Texas Eagle; however they
have not been judged an improvement and are eventually to be
phased out in favor of the traditional dining cars.
Superliner Transition Sleepers
Also referred to sometimes as “the dorm car” by Amtrak crews,
this is always the first bi-level car in a Superliner consist, located
right behind the baggage car. As the name implies, this car pro-
vides sleeping quarters for most of the onboard crew members.
There are no large bedrooms in this car; all the sleeping accom-
modations are roomettes. Sleeping-car attendants sometimes
occupy roomette number 1 in their cars, but they'll use the dorm
car if all the regular rooms are sold, which is the case most of the
time. The lower level includes toilets, a shower, a lounge area,