Yes, Dinner is served in the Diner since the Sunset runs on its Regular Schedule between San Antonio and New Orleans even with the revised Schedule between LAX and San Antonio due to Trackwork.( the Sunset is notorious for being Late into New Orleans, usually several Hours even when leaving Houston on Time!)Dinner served on eastbound Sunset into New Orleans?
This is probably a stupid question, but I just wanted to make sure. Who knows what Amtrak tries to pull these days. I remember back in 2005 on the eastbound Lake Shore (when it still had a diner), the dining car served a "brunch" from 10:30-11:30, and promptly closed the diner for the remainder of the trip. Mind you, the train wasn't scheduled into New York until 3:30, and we were running 2 hours late on top of that!
Yeah, it usually gives an arrival & departure time, but sometimes it arrives & departs in the same minute, or doesn't record a departure time, and the location data doesn't show it slowing down or stopping. Maybe just an artifact of the recording apparatus, but it got me suspicious. Here's an example from train 2 of June 4th, whose records say it arrived and departed at 12:53am.What do you mean it only stop sometimes? Last few dates #2 has arrival and departure information.
Maybe it's this:I've been looking through recent data on asm.transitdocs.com for the Sunset Limited, and it seems to stop at Palm Springs only sporadically - most days, it looks like it rolls through without stopping, maybe on one of the non-platform tracks. Is Palm Springs treated as a de-facto flag stop, where they only stop if they know a passenger is booked for it ahead of time?
Hey, it's only a 70-mile Uber ride!No doubt this is a very comforting message to passengers destined to or from Palm Springs.
Nice, a PSN for PSN. Looking at the "1222" at the bottom and comparing to other announcements, it seems this has been going on for half a year.Maybe it's this:
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Here's a more convincing example: Train 2 of June 11th passed by (or possibly departed) Palm Springs 12 minutes early last night. That'd never happen under ordinary circumstances.Not sure. I think it's very possible that they are coming to a complete stop, but I wouldn't rule out rolling stops.
Not many people are going to choose to take a train that stops in the dead of night three times a wake, and has an inconvenient stop location in a fairly small city. It can board and deboard people pretty fast. I believe that the P42's can get going fairly fast, and the Sunset doesn't have a super long train either.
Transit docs isn't Amtrak and doesn't always have the most accurate date (sometimes Amtrak doesn't either). I don't think the lack of a departure time is a very good indicator.
I asked "Julie" when the cafe closed, and "she" connected me to a real agent, who, after considerable delay, said the cafe closes at 10 pm.Does anyone know when the cafe in lounge car on west bound Sunset Limited closes? Getting on in Maricopa AZ if on time at 8:51pm.TIA
Maybe, maybe not. The customer service agents really do not know much of anything about ground truth onboard, especially on LDs. Interesting the agent didn't just quote what was in the Blue Book, though.I asked "Julie" when the cafe closed, and "she" connected me to a real agent, who, after considerable delay, said the cafe closes at 10 pm.
But as @zephyr17 said, it's generally just up to the whims of the attendant.
Is that due to lack of passengers or lack of equipment?Just saw the Sunset on the Houston cam, now with only ONE COACH! From NOL to SAT. That is sad.
I would like to know. The train used to carry a minium of two or three coaches depending on the season. Then again, I remember when a sleeper and two coaches from the Eagle was attached to the SL in the 80s.Is that due to lack of passengers or lack of equipment?
Or they do not wish to assign whatever they have available to that run of Sunset Limited. That determination could be based on projected bookings for that day, among various other things. They definitely do not have any idea which specific car you were going to get in the consist three weeks out. It is more of a fleet allocation decision based on many factors.Well .. I'm guessing it is lack of equipment.
Just got a call yesterday and they had to reassign me from a roomette to an accessible bedroom (for a trip 2.5 weeks out). They had to take the car I was in out of service. That signals to me that they have a very limited availability (or basically none) of replacement cars.
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