Lunatrain: the Nightjet of North America?

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Mailliw

Mailliw

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I learned about this in the Dreamstar thread. I'm very skeptical this will ever get off the ground (assuming it's it's even a real proposal to begin with), but it's still a very interesting proposal. These are exactly the type of routes and services I think I think Amtrak should exploring. They make some very good points about sleeping accommodations. The concept renderings are literally the same style as the new Nightjet trains, which suggests one of 2 things. They just copied the designs as a demonstration, or they have plan on having order Venture Coaches from Siemens with the Nightjet layouts.
https://www.ridelunatrain.com/
 
Mailliw said:
I learned about this in the Dreamstar thread. I'm very skeptical this will ever get off the ground (assuming it's it's even a real proposal to begin with), but it's still a very interesting proposal. These are exactly the type of routes and services I think I think Amtrak should exploring. They make some very good points about sleeping accommodations. The concept renderings are literally the same style as the new Nightjet trains, which suggests one of 2 things. They just copied the designs as a demonstration, or they have plan on having order Venture Coaches from Siemens with the Nightjet layouts.
https://www.ridelunatrain.com/
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I would rather be in a Roomette than one of those capsule things that you have to crawl into. They might appeal to younger folks.
 
Mailliw said:
These are exactly the type of routes and services I think I think Amtrak should exploring. They make some very good points about sleeping accommodations.
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Actually, not really. Amtrak should be focusing first on expanding daytime corridor service and making the existing long-distance network more reliable. The overnight "Night Owl" or "redeye" service in the northeast works because of a number of unique factors: numerous large intermediate cities, the combination of commuter traffic (PHL-WAS, WIL-WAS, BAL-WAS, PVD-BOS) with the overnight through traffic, and the fact that the trains terminate early in the morning. I used to take 67 (both through from Boston - Washington and commuter from Baltimore to Washington), and its main feature was that I would get into Washington early enough to be on time for work.
 

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