Amtrak is now pushing very hard to get rid of western long distance trains because they do not want to pay for the required 40 year inspections coming up on the Superliners and they do not want to pay to replace them with Viewliners. This is where most of the Chargers would be required which again they do not want to pay for. So Charger numbers are more iffy. So a lot of western red state Congressman and Senators are in a real pickle because if Amtrak goes there is basically no long distance transport option other than driving multi hundreds of miles to the nearest airport or bus station. With Greyhound eliminating stops between Salt Lake City and Reno Amtrak picked up that service for Nevada and Utah.
Whether or a not a plain baggage would be part of a basic set or an add on or maybe even available is still a question. Again they are mostly for western trains with eastern trains considered more likely fodder for the baggage dorms (possibly even rebuilding excess plain baggage cars into baggage dorms if western trains to go away).
Note that this is still very early in the thinking about it phase with delivery of any models probably being late 2020 or possibly 2021 so what Amtrak does still influences final production choices. Scott is still very wary of doing any more Amtrak at all and the reservations for the Amfleet cars is kinda reinforcing that. The thought and hope here is that this might reinforce the other as we're talking about a complete train so we don't get into the train without a loco or vice versa debate.
