Dreamstar overnight train between San Francisco and Los Angeles?

[frequentflyer]

Didn't Stadler make some more Ultra Domes, that are taller than Superliners? Just buy some of them, should be cheaper than refurbing and renovating 75 cars with no parts supply.

 

[Just-Thinking-51]

Didn't Stadler make some more Ultra Domes, that are taller than Superliners? Just buy some of them, should be cheaper than refurbing and renovating 75 cars with no parts supply.

Yes Sadler did make oversized domes. They had to purposely build a new factory next to a port to fill that contract. No reason to built oversized when building custom equipment. You want fancy sleepers cars Stadler custom builds anything your heart desires for the right price.

 

[tgstubbs1]

Corridor Rail has/had quite a few of the ex-Santa Fe Hi-Levels. Probably enough to equip a daily LA-SF train. The website still features them prominently. I can envision some cases where putting them back in service as coaches could make economic sense. But, refitting them for sleeper service seems unfeasible.
https://corridorrail.com/

I wonder how many of these cars they have? They say on the web site they have 'zero age' -- so they are completely restored.

 

[Metra Electric Rider]

Those renderings are gorgeous to the point of being Japanese luxury/fantasy train fantastic. Even the European land cruise trains are all old school traditional that I can think of (suddenly have picture of 007 on train with Jaws attacking him and, I think, agent XXX, in a very chic and snazzy mod train from the 70's).

 

[Cal]

the a/c and other systems

The PPC's were still running I think smoothly on the Starlight back in 2018. With old cars like them, the body should be just fine and you should be able to overhaul them with everything else you need.

 

[GariYaMoshi]

The PPC's were still running I think smoothly on the Starlight back in 2018. With old cars like them, the body should be just fine and you should be able to overhaul them with everything else you need.

What is PPC?