rickycourtney
Conductor
Thank you much!90215 is shopped with a roll up door issue.ACS-64-Do you know for sure that 90218 is in the consist tonight? There's some one on Trainorders who swears it's 90215.90218:
November 19-22
Thank you much!90215 is shopped with a roll up door issue.ACS-64-Do you know for sure that 90218 is in the consist tonight? There's some one on Trainorders who swears it's 90215.90218:
November 19-22
Extra Long San Joaquin with 7 Comet Cars plus Dinette near Martinez, Nov 30 2013
Thanksgiving brought a lot of extra passengers to Amtrak California, so some trains were lengthened. This San Joaquin, Train 712 (Oakland to Bakersfield), features 7 of the rebuilt Comet Cars from New Jersey along with its Horizon dinette car and non-powered cab unit 90225 (formerly an F40PH locomotive).
It was a bit puzzling to see. The Superliner Coach/Cafe and California Cafe were both had the lights off and were out of service as they were separated from the normal consist. It was just funny to see them attached to the nose of a locomotive!That is a very strange consist. The Superliner Coach/Café cars are rarely used on the San Joaquin. The only time I've been on one was during the thanksgiving holiday rush when it was used to extend the San Joaquin consist (the lower-level café was closed.)
I also noticed that the Horizon Dinette's have the CDTX reporting mark under the car number. That would suggest that these cars are owned by the California Department of Transportation and not Amtrak. I thought the plan was for Amtrak to lease the Horizon cars, not sell them.
Long-term lessees often apply their own reporting marks. The reporting marks relate to "who do we have to talk to" in case the car gets damaged or misplaced, or turns out to be defective. In most leases of this sort, the lessee is entirely responsible until the lease expires. From Wikipedia (emphasis mine):I thought the plan was for Amtrak to lease the Horizon cars, not sell them.
A reporting mark is an alphabetic code of one to five letters used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain railroad networks.
Thanks for the info Nathanael.Long-term lessees often apply their own reporting marks. The reporting marks relate to "who do we have to talk to" in case the car gets damaged or misplaced, or turns out to be defective. In most leases of this sort, the lessee is entirely responsible until the lease expires. From Wikipedia (emphasis mine):I thought the plan was for Amtrak to lease the Horizon cars, not sell them.
A reporting mark is an alphabetic code of one to five letters used to identify owners or lessees of rolling stock and other equipment used on certain railroad networks.
Thank you for your report.5005 should be on today's CZ #5 out of Chicago.
The "climb" was what railroading was about back in the daysI am at Martinez tonight, doing a quick points run before hopping on CS 14 for the trip back to Seattle. Got to see 718 with the Comet consist briefly, but I didn't get pictures. The paint job looked nice, but it sure looked like a major climb from the platform.
I'm pretty sure Delta bought them from Southwest outright.The application of the reporting marks is pretty normal. IIRC CSX's 20 SD70ACes are leased, but you wouldn't know it by looking at them. When VRE had their lease on the two Sounder sets they didn't get a full paint job, but they had VRE lettering and numbering on them. Even the airlines apply their paint and numbering to planes that they lease, Delta's lease of Southwest/AirTrans Boeing 717s comes to mind.
No, Delta is actually subleasing them from Southwest, who is leasing them from Boeing.I'm pretty sure Delta bought them from Southwest outright.The application of the reporting marks is pretty normal. IIRC CSX's 20 SD70ACes are leased, but you wouldn't know it by looking at them. When VRE had their lease on the two Sounder sets they didn't get a full paint job, but they had VRE lettering and numbering on them. Even the airlines apply their paint and numbering to planes that they lease, Delta's lease of Southwest/AirTrans Boeing 717s comes to mind.
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