Railfan and Roshan, I am yet to come across an instance of pantry car chaps boarding a General bogie to sell their wares. But that does not mean such a thing does not happen just because I have not seen it. Since both of you are appear quite confident of what you have stated, I guess it is possible but may be infrequent. Two of the problems I envisage in such an arrangement are that the PC guy would hardly get any moving space in a General Bogie in a train like say Coromandel express and secondly since these bogies are not vestibuled, he will have to wait till the next halt for getting back to the PC.