Short turning at Atlanta for their usual track work blitz
You will see that on Mondays - Thursday second week of Jan - end to ~~ end of February due to NS track absolute work windows south of ATL/
It is nice to see that 2 buses are available for Atlanta-New Orleans when the train is not running. There's an express that makes no stops, while the other serves all intermediate stations.
The Boston section of the Lake Shore gets cancelled and bustituted between Boston and Albany annually in the Fall for a CSX maintenance blitz, too.
My impression is the Eagle route gets heavy work quite often. But it's interesting to me that I can't recall any major blitz like this on the ex- Capitol Limited route or on the NS portion of The Pennsylvanian.
The Piedmont and Carolinian deal with something similar.
That's sad to see, I have been wanting to take a trip in a V2 car but apparently some of them are already looking worn out. I know the equipment should be built tough, but the way I see some passengers treating airline seats, lounge furnishings, etc I have to wonder if people were raised in a barn with no regard to treating things like they were their own property.
It's quite possible that the duct tape on the table was put there by a previous customer, not by Amtrak. I taped down the laminate on a table in an H-room because it was separated and curled up as it is in your photo, and presented a sharp edge.
Rode hard and put away wet. Looks like that duct tape needs to be replaced. Not much can be done with that corrosion.
Thanks for posting those photos which are quite informative.
