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First: Specific decisions on consists is subject to all sorts of weird irrational decision-making.That being said, dying of COVID actually isn't terribly off-point. Once you mothball old transportation equipment, putting it back into service is difficult. They had a lot of problems with the vacuum sewage systems on the Superliners before COVID and that seems to have become much worse after pulling them back from COVID. There aren't that many techs who know how to patch up that system and a lot of them retired during COVID. You're not going to put a car whose toilets don't work back into service.The other issue beyond the vacuum systems is that they're pulling a lot of Superliners out of service for their interior refresh.The final thing is that equipment juggling isn't being done with much consideration for anything beyond the needs of the yard or what they think they can get away with. It's also unfortunate that demand for sleepers seems to be at an all-time high due to the pandemic.All the Superliner I fleet should have been replaced by now...but the planned replacement ended up getting cancelled and we're now limping along with equipment well past its end of life.
First: Specific decisions on consists is subject to all sorts of weird irrational decision-making.
That being said, dying of COVID actually isn't terribly off-point. Once you mothball old transportation equipment, putting it back into service is difficult. They had a lot of problems with the vacuum sewage systems on the Superliners before COVID and that seems to have become much worse after pulling them back from COVID. There aren't that many techs who know how to patch up that system and a lot of them retired during COVID. You're not going to put a car whose toilets don't work back into service.
The other issue beyond the vacuum systems is that they're pulling a lot of Superliners out of service for their interior refresh.
The final thing is that equipment juggling isn't being done with much consideration for anything beyond the needs of the yard or what they think they can get away with. It's also unfortunate that demand for sleepers seems to be at an all-time high due to the pandemic.
All the Superliner I fleet should have been replaced by now...but the planned replacement ended up getting cancelled and we're now limping along with equipment well past its end of life.
