Well the LA yards have almost 24 hours to think of that as the two 3s won't be getting in till 8PM. At least passengers should be able to get on a southbound Surfliner service.
Southwest Chief #3 and #4 in New Mexico Service Disruption
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I wonder why the didn't bus bridge between Albuquerque and Winslow or Flagstaff? That has been their usual response in the past when lines have been unexpectedly closed.
It would have been much less disruptive.
It would have been much less disruptive.
Maybe they couldn't secure buses??
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Hah! Who cares? Now the Class 1s will probably not be able to put the Amtrak trains on the sidings. A great solution to get back at NS in the east - create a 100 car Amtrak train by pulling all the unused baggage cars and smashed but still running superliner/viewliner/heritage cars on the back end of the Crescent while inviting PV cars to attach for free just this once.
This image of two No. 3s plus some private cars is not unlike those from yesteryear showing the combined Super Chief and the El Capitan.
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Cajon Pass this afternoon...
Yes the platforms are Very long. Went there often.
16 cars, right? Impressive nowadays, but the fact that the Silver Star and Silver Meteor used to routinely run out of New York with 18 cars, is all the more remarkable. Back then, the trains would split in Florida into Miami and St. Petersburg sections...
Sure is nice to see some Private Varnish. I thought Amtrak had done just about everything they could to kill it.
I seem to remember years ago the combined Broadway / Cap Limited was a huge train to when it was combined from CHI to PGH before splitting into the NY and DC sections at Harrisburg or Pittsburgh. I don't think it was 18 cars though (and were the Silvers really that long?).
I don't remember the details other than, oddly, the train numbers, which were 40/41 (NY) and 440/441 (DC).
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I believe silvers and other trains added cars at either PHL and / or WASH to flesh out the trains. Isn't NYP limited to 14 or 15 cars without fouling CPs at one end or other ?
Guess one of the P42s had no problem providing enough HEP even to the 2 PV cars. ?
Guess one of the P42s had no problem providing enough HEP even to the 2 PV cars. ?
Two P40's (that I believe are now identical to P42s) can supply enough HEP for the Auto Train, so I doubt this would be an issue.
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Sorry only one P-40 is needed to provide HEP to Auto train. There is no way to parallel 2 locos. The P-40s had their HEP upgraded to what I believe is 1000Kw.each. That is same as each HEP unit in ACS-64s. Also in the new Siemens Chargers such as #300.
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Or F40s as the case may have been back then. I doubt there were that many 18 car Florida trains after 1992. Most of the really long trains were pre-HEP, so supplying HEP was not an issue. Supplying Steam was more important
I believe that at NYP, the platforms for tracks 9&10, 11&12, and 13&14 can handle 18 cars. The trains that long were pulled by two GG-1's or one E60 between New York and Washington. No cars were added enroute to the Silver's. The seasonal Florida Special was a shorter train, and it added a dome sleeper at Richmond.
The Capitol Limited name was revived, when the Washington cars split at Pittsburgh, since the train brought back the historic B&O route. The Broadway split off Washington cars at Harrisburg, and later, at 30th Street Station, Philadelphia. The early Broadway did not regularly have 18 cars, but they could have during peak seasons if necessary. I believe the Silver's regularly had that many during the peak winter season.
