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There is an option in there to have the same skylight style windows in the coaches as for the lounges - so conceivably you could "sightsee" right from your seat on cars where they exercise that option. Obviously it's nice to have somewhere to go other than your seat but if the coaches had the...

It’s edible. I’ve said this before but there isn’t any huge groundbreaking difference between flex meals and Acela first class dining. They’re both airline style meals. One (Acela obviously) is presented better but having had both back to back in a short period of time there’s not a heck of a...

The grant request does mention restoring Traditional dining to the Eagle as something they want to do in FY25 depending on the funding they get from their annual grant under the "Food service improvement" initiative- it's listed under the initiatives they'd like to do again depending on funding.

Beat me to it!

There was never anything about that from official sources - only rumors.

The official report doesn’t say it from what I’ve read so far - but it does mention “returning traditional dining to more routes.”

A Viewliner 2 diner will return to the Crescent Q4 2024. A Sightseer lounge will return to the Texas Eagle Q1 FY2025

https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/reports/Amtrak-General-Legislative-Annual-Report-FY2025-Grant-Request.pdf#page65 Amtraks FY request is out - notably this coming fiscal year will have the first pay out towards the LD re fleeting ($407 milllion.)

For whoever had the maintenance concerns it says right in there that they will be including a TSSSA (pronounced "T Triple S A" - stands for technical services and spares supply agreement) with the trainsets which is the same regime they are using for the ALC42s and that the Airos will also use...

Please keep in mind it lists those as “minimum capacities for that route.” They aren’t necessarily married to that - they are including the ability to alter consists seasonally.

It reads to me more like a roomette with one larger seat for a solo occupant instead of the two. Would probably be priced between roomettes and club bedrooms.

Kind of sounds like Premium Coach seats are targeted at the long haul coach crowd riding overnight. I like the idea. Makes a quieter cabin for when you have the shuffle of the shorter distance passengers coming and going.

Interesting new accommodation types: SoloSuites which are basically roomettes optimized for a single traveler with a larger seat. Premium bedrooms which run the width of car - probably the closest Amtrak will come to a prestige class. It does look like the lounge may be first class only, -...

Correct. The document mentions nothing about the single level routes. I’d anticipate a separate procurement for single level. (The Texas Eagle and Empire Builder are mentioned outright about routes where the train splits but the Lake Shore is not mentioned.)

Also unlike the corridor equipment it looks like the seat backs will recline in this equipment, like the Airos the seat pan will also move forwards so as not to burden the passenger behind with the full recline, but unlike the Airos the seat backs will also recline.

Though they do seem to plan on going with all semi permanently coupled, they are specifying that individual cars need to be able to be set out in the field with the procedure taking an hour or less with normal tools and that consists need to be able to be seasonally adjusted for capacity. Like...

Most of the cars being taken out of storage are non revenue food service, baggage, and lounge types. For the revenue cars the most numerous type exiting storage are Horizon. There are also transition sleepers and Viewliner 1 sleepers in the mix. There are also a number of wreck repairs being...

I’m sure jis or pennyk could probably provide an absolute definitive response but I believe it most certainly does. Dinner hours in the diner go to 9 PM and Orlando is one of the major Florida stops - so I can’t imagine they would not. 98 hits Savannah a bit later than that and dinner is offered...

I’d add however the largest use of checked baggage on the day running trains that have it is for bicycles. If the cars have bicycle storage that may mitigate the issue somewhat. Bikes were the main reason PaDOT added baggage on the Pennsylvanian. I’ve ridden the Pennsy a few times since they...

The Airos also will have a standard coupler on both ends of the train set so connecting a baggage or other type of car to the train set would be theoretically possible if they ran those trains unidirectional with the Charger facing forward. They don’t make it impossible to have baggage but it...