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With a baggage car - 7.

Venture coaches have 68 seats, despite one bathroom instead of two. Amfleet and Horizon have 72.

I don't like the idea of fixed train sets. The lack of flexibility only works with Acela. We have seen Regional train lengths vary over the last 10 years between 6 and 10 cars, and are variously 8 - 10 cars today. I don't frankly care what they do in Europe and Asia. But we are supposed to like...

What do you guys think of recycled plastic ties ? I've seen them on 80MPH portions of the NJT Raritan Line.

If M-8's had the heavy transformers to handle the 25Hz, it would have put the cars over 80 tons. Not worth it for the handful to operate in this service. M-8's assigned to ShorelIne East service (12 of the Connecticut-owned ones) had their 3rd rail shoes removed since they could have been...

They are going to install over-sliding 3rd rail up the Hell Gate line into western Wooside about a mile and a half up from Harold, so that takes care of the commonality need for MN MU trains to Penn Station. NJT Arrow MU's will be gone in 2 or 3 years. Everything else can convert on the fly...

Emergency snacks, but Amstew is only a diner car thing.

Let's wait and see what happens on 6/22/2025.

For my annual trip to QC next year, I have to seriously consider abandoning VIA Rail once and for all and head for Orleans Express. It is self-evident that they cannot: 1) Manage disabled equipment, 2) Feed or rescue passengers in a timely manner, 3) Manage their employees, one of whom should...

People are going to compare the new fleet with the current fleet, not what ran prior to 1971 with both amenities and seat comfort, since relatively few are around who remember that. So far, it appears to be a downgrade for coach passengers, continuing Richard Anderson's trendline.

How did Amtrak get permission to go from the height limit of a gallery commuter or Santa Fe high level car to that of a Superliner ? I never did like that hazardous step in the gangway in passing between a Santa Fe car and a Superliner.

There have been Amfleet-2 dinette cars on eastern LD trains for 40 years with numeorus tables for the length of the car, which function as lounge cars - for everyone. That will not be the case with Superliner replacements, yet an 85' lounge car will be there just for 25% of the sleeper...

With the proposed design, lounge car for sleeper passengers only means NO lounge car for coach passengers, which are 75% of the people on the train, which is not acceptable and a severe downgrade from existing Superliner trains. Nodody on the current Capitol Ltd and Texas Eagle likes it. A cafe...

The Washington engine change is scheduled for 25 minutes. There will still be dwell time of 15 minutes just for ingress/egress of passengers from one end of the platform and for schedule recovery. Any less than that, and they will depart late. So hauling the dead weight of a prime mover and...

Borealis is a state-supported service, but not one that can use Midwest consortium equipment.

Also, SEPTA got a look at NJT with their Brontosaurus MLV locals that have clogged up the NEC and reduced the M&E and Coast Line to pokey jokes and said to themselves don't let this happen to you. Now NJT has no excuse to not buy some Silverliner VI 's and not kill the Princeton Dinky nor go...

Were they expected to not take up the matter, or just reject it ?

Now if only they would give Tampa to the Meteor to save some time and reroute it via Philly.

You are assuming it will be marketed as one train. It may not be.

If they paired off the Capitol Ltd with the Silver Metoer instead, lateness recovery at DC would be a far simpler matter. They could probably send the train off to Ivy City to refresh it. It would also balance out one seat ride service along the Atlantic Coast: the A-line and S-line would each...