Amtrak Cascades Service discussion

[Trogdor]

Can't they just use a cabbage?

I suppose the real question is, what’s the procedure for removing the cab car from the consist and is there some other unit that can cap it? The Talgo cab cars are essentially permanently coupled to the rest of the train, sharing a single-axle truck with the car behind it. You can’t just take it off and put a cabbage on there, as the adjacent car doesn’t have standard couplers, probably doesn’t have a simple way to close off the end, and probably also doesn’t have something that can hold onto that pair of wheels.

And you wouldn’t couple a cabbage to the severely damaged cab car and run it in service.

 

[AFriendly]

I think its safe to say that Talgo cab car is totaled and I don't see how that set operates without it. Is there *any* spare equipment anywhere that can be subbed in? Last summer I noticed there was a Horizon set with a Viewliner baggage car at the end and no NPCU running but I think I only saw it once or twice.

 

[trimetbusfan]

I think its safe to say that Talgo cab car is totaled and I don't see how that set operates without it. Is there *any* spare equipment anywhere that can be subbed in? Last summer I noticed there was a Horizon set with a Viewliner baggage car at the end and no NPCU running but I think I only saw it once or twice.

Yeah I highly doubt they would fix it considering the impending arrival of the airo's.

 

[Maelstrom]

Last glimpse I got of it on Wednesday at the Seattle Amtrak yard. They moved it somewhere else when I went back on Thursday to get a better look.

 

[TheMalahat]

Is there an extra set of Horizons that's being used, now?

 

[trimetbusfan]

Is there an extra set of Horizons that's being used, now?

Not sure if it’s extra but there’s a set running without a cab car again. It has engine 1406.

 

[trimetbusfan]

511 is also now canceled due to ‘mechanical issues’

 

[flitcraft]

Regarding the Talgo episode: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...ngineer-nearly-impaled-by-tree-hitting-train/
In case this is paywalled, the upshot is that the engineer was nearly impaled when the tree crashed through the front window. Although he was apparently not seriously injured, he was taken to hospital for observation. The passengers were provided 'other transportation,' aka bustituted. At that, I would have been happy just to get where I was going!

The bomb-cyclone in question was no joke! We were without power for almost three full days, and the neighborhood is a mess with downed trees. On 35th St, a main arterial in our neighborhood, 16 trees lining the road came down late that night--most with trucks well over a foot thick. Now, days later, 35th is closed for a 30 block length while the trees are being cut up and removed. Our neighbors to the south had a three story tall pine tree come down, just missing the house but smashing into the detached garage.