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Before the Viewliners were ordered, experimental Ampads were installed in the ends of 2 or 3 Amfleet coaches for the Cincinnati trains. How hard was it to do that? Will the Amfleet business car find its way into private ownership now that the current legal department hates open ended observation cars?

ExCon90 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:34 pmThe MP54's had a hand pump mounted below the car floor, accessible from trackside. I don't know about the Silverliners -- never thought about it before.

ApproachMedium wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:40 pmSilverliners and arrows have a hand pump under a seat

As for the travel ban. Amtrak's office of the Chief of Police will issue and has issued letters to all employees stating our need to get to work. We are covered under 49 CFR 239. It authorizes employees with proper photo ID and acting within the scope of their employment to cross police lines road ...

As of now, the 1st Eastbound train from Buffalo tomorrow morning, 12/29/22, is cancelled. All Lake Shore Limiteds in both directions are 0% full and sold out through Fri. 12/30/22, also the same for Eastbound on New Year's Eve.

(cannot change pans anymore without lowering both) Can you run with both pantographs up in a sleet or ice storm? What AM was referring to is the change in software that no longer lets us keep one pan up while changing to the lowered one. How do you get both pantographs up if you 1st have to lower t...

Your sleeping car ticket will tell you not only your room letter or number, but also the car number that is supposed to be displayed in that little window. With older cars, it might also be displayed on the end doors.

Paoli, Pennsylvania on the Pennsylvania RR had location signs on the Westbound platform and numbered signs 1 through at least 5 West of the platform to tell the engineer where to stop with that many locomotives and cars behind the engine and before the 1st passenger carrying car. A station employee ...

All Buffalo service is still cancelled Tues. 12/27 and Wed. 12/28/22, except for Wed. night's Westbound Lake Shore Limited.

ApproachMedium wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 1:39 am(cannot change pans anymore without lowering both)

As of 12/26/22, Eastbound service through Buffalo, New York still hasn't happened since the previous message. Westbound service seems to have ended at Syracuse, New York. The 1st train may be tonight's Westbound Lake Shore Limited, which still has some space available, tomorrow's Eastbound is alread...

Demotored SPV 2000s have been sold into the 2nd hand market. They did run with Amfleet cars on the NorthEast Corridor.

Service through Buffalo finally started with the Maple Leaf on Sun., Nov. 20, a day later than previous projections.

The Capital Ltd. left Chicago 2:45 late Thurs. night 11/18/22. Was that because extra cars were being added to handle passengers from the cancelled Lake Shore? The only exceptions may be Empire Service Train 284 East from Syracuse, New York. It left 2 minutes late today and is shown as not cancelled...

Probably due to an expected many feet of snow, all trains west of Albany - Rensselaer, New York and East of Chicago, Illinois that leave Buffalo (Depew), New York after 3:11 p.m. Thurs. 11/17/22 and before 1:09 p.m. Sat. 11/19/22 are cancelled.

Has there been any more information about what happened with the New Jersey Transit train near Bound Brook? Was there already water flowing through the open flood gate when the train arrived there? Did the train stop because its locomotive was disabled, the emergency brakes applied, or something der...