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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...

I read somewhere over a week ago that there will be one day lag in Washington from 92 to 29 in equipment run through. Cardinal takes about 7 or 8 hours longer longer than the Capitol. That is not an option for anyone but endpoint railfans and not with 2 coaches, which they have no intention of...

Amazing (or maybe not) - Amtrak can find another two Amfleet-2 cars when they want to for a daytime corridor train, but not a 3rd coach for the Cardinal, nor any plans to. Gardner's and Harris's passive aggression towards that train is in plain sight, especially with Manchin leaving the Senate...

Relocation to Downeaster service ?

Which tracks are 2 & 4 ? (I don't remember how Pennsy tracks are numbered).

The 2nd hand HEP-I and HEP-II coaches all sit on trucks transplanted from the CC&F Blue fleet. So for them, they have a standard truck depsite coming from a variety of US railroads.

Australia's transcon train has some Budd-looking equipment. Maybe it was a Budd-licensee, but I don't know. Maybe they'll look at that for inspiration. I think Canada's version of ADA also means there will never be a dome car again, though maybe a SAL Sun Lounge type of thing.

Correct. Just as well, from what I have seen, I don't like Amtrak's designs one bit.

One reason Amtrak literally ***** the Capitol Ltd down to 3 Superliners, even worse than the Texas Eagle, is they could not stand its horrible equipment utilization. With all the other eastern low level trains with reduced consists, they could have converted it to low level right then and there...

I don't remember the exact dates, but for about 6 months during the pandemic.

If they thru-routed the Capitol with the Meteor instead, they would multiple hours in DC to make up time.