What happens to human waste from the bathrooms on amtrak?

Question

does it fall onto the tracks? im extremely curious

Answer 1

Your mom eats it.

Answer 2

Goes on the tracks.

Answer 3

That is a silly question.....all the human waste on trains and airplanes goes into holding tanks where it is flushed and mixed with chemicals......when the train/plane lands a forklift truck removes the tank from them and the waste is drained into a mobil truck that takes it to a sewage plant.....I used to work in an airport........what do you think happens to porta-johns???? Same thing, a lift picks up the waste pan and dumps it......

Answer 4

As far as I know, modern cars have removable tanks. When they're being serviced between runs, the full tanks are swapped out with empty ones. Older cars have fixed tanks, and those have to be drained into septic trucks or septic tanks. I worked for a railroad that had a dump site for fixed tanks, which ultimately fed into an off-site leech field. You had to spot each car individually for dumping, and it was a pretty nasty job. Ick!

Answer 5

It gets pumped out every couple of days by the maintenance guys.