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Are there bathrooms in the train engines? Engines, not cargo/passengers.?

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I'm talking about the train engines..(Amtrak etc). the part that pulls the cargo and passenger cars.

I've been wondering about this for ages, because the vehicle looks entirely like a machine... the conductor can hardly move around in there to begin with. I've googled it and search and couldn't find anything. Is there a photo link anyone knows about?

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  1. It's not standard in all engines, it's a option (like power locks on your car). I have never seen a Amtrak Engine without a bathroom. Metro North Railroad on the other hand, does not have a single genesis locomotive with a bathroom. The Conductor is the lucky one, he's with the passengers and can go as he pleases. The poor engineer is doing the pee-pee dance till he pulls in to GCT.


  2. yes, there are. In the older locomotives, they were located back in the engine room, but in modern wide-cab locomotives, the bathroom is located in the nose.

    I got this from an article in TRAINS MAGAZINE:

    back in some of the earlier diesel locomotives, where the toilet was back in the engine compartment, you NEVER flushed when the unit was in Notch 8 throtting, because when the engine is in notch 8, it's trying to suck in combustion air from any opening it had to the outside, basically creating a vaccum, so if you flushed, the contents of the toilet would either end up sticking to the ceiling or your @$$.

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    A lot of modern cabs come equipped with an evironmentally-friendly toilet in the nose (don't have to worry about when to & not to flush. flush anytime you want.), along with stuff like ergonomicly designed adjustable seats, a refrigerator, telephone-style recievers, a first aid kit, there's even a choice of cab card holders. Other options that vary from railroad to railroad include multi-lingual decals, a built-in hot plate, a microwave, a house keeping light, even fold-down sinks. I hope that gives you an idea of what a locomotive cab is like. There is plenty of room for toilets & stuff, even though they look machine-like from the outside.

  3. For the hood-unit freight engines, the toilet is in the nose of the engine, forward and below the cab.

    On passenger engines with a full-width body, I know on the General Electric AMD103 Genesis used by Amtrak right now, it's behind the cab (no room in the nose).

    Hope this helps.

  4. The toilets in locomotives are ghastly! Another common practice is "checking the coupler oil." The engineer puts three-step protection in place, and the affected crew member stands against the coupler and the pilot, urinating underneath the engine. Sure beats those dry bowls!

  5. yes in the late 1980s into the 1990s they added restrooms for the locomotive engineer.

  6. i depends on if you have to p**s or ****. if you have to go **** you go to the bathroom. if you have to p**s you just open the door and p**s away. im a train driver and thats what i do.

  7. Yes there is, I know on the freight engines you get to it by walking to the front of the engine, not sure how you get to it on the passenger engines, probably have a doorway from the engineers cabin.

  8. yes they do in the nose .. and they are the nastiest bathrooms on the planet.... i and most other guys pee off the side of the locomotive...the bathrooms are horrible and smelly...

  9. yep, and a refrigerator, w cold water.

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