Yes. As soon as it was considered impractical to make long stops at stations to let everybody go to toilet and wait until they were done before proceeding. Those only consisted of a bowl with a hole in the bottom and a tube onto the track.
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I do not know just when the practice began, but in the thirties several trains, including the Century and the Broadway, had bathtubs or showers in the lounge cars, along with barber shops. In 1950, the Southern had one master bedrrom with a shower in each set of the lightweight equipment built for the Crescent.
The traditional method of disposing human waste from trains is to deposit the waste onto the tracks or, more often, onto nearby ground, using what is known as a hopper toilet. This ranges from a hole in the floor to a full-flush system (possibly with sterilization).
While modern trains won't litter the tracks with human excrement, the traditional method did just that. This is what was known as a hopper toilet. It could either be a simple hole in the floor (also known as a drop chute toilet) or a full-flush system.
Other than a refrigerator/watercooler and a bathroom there are almost zero ammenities on a locomotive. Only way a engineer can go to bathroom is by stopping his train or if the conductor is a certified engineer he could run for while.
Our train cars do not have air conditioning, but the enclosed cars do have windows you are welcome to open or close at your discretion. We recommend that if you dress to be comfortable outside, you will be plenty comfortable onboard the train.
An Amtrak sleeper car is a train car that contains restrooms, shower rooms and sleeping accommodations (not coach seats). Only the overnight and long-distance trains have sleeper cars, which contain roomettes and bedrooms.