Wow! That's a new one on me. I've ridden the Empire Builder many times in winter and experienced problems with frozen toilets, sinks and showers. The first sign of problems seems to be evidenced by plastic dinner wear and paper cups in the diner.Probably with all the cold weather, Amtrak is being safe and substituting superliners since they are less prone to freezing than single level cars, particularly horizon coaches.
They're not going to be running at 110 in this weather anyway. It's sufficiently cold that there are going to be slow orders, so as to avoid stressing the rail and making it snap.Amtrak had stopped using superliners on the wolverine route when it was upgraded to 110MPH as the superliners can only do 100MPH(well legally anyway lol). But with this rare cold snap amtrak must have decided enoughs enough with frozen cars.
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