BIRCH GROVE and MOONLIGHT DOME
train 30(26) from CHI to WAS
train 89(28) from WAS to SAV
train 30(26) from CHI to WAS
train 89(28) from WAS to SAV
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jhdeasy wrote:...Thank you for answering a question I’d entirely forgotten I had. A few months ago I saw what must have been MARCO POLO at NS Van Dorn Yard while commuting home. It was too dark for me to see details from up the hill at WMATA Van Dorn Station, but I couldn’t figure out why there was a heavyweight car staged there unless there was a time warp to 1930.
At about the same time, NS office car MARCO POLO, an even longer resident of Washington Union Station, departed Amtrak's Ivy City S&I facility with a fresh air brake COT&S and inspection, in a special equipment move across the Potomac River to Norfolk Southern's Van Dorn Street Yard in Alexandria.
jhdeasy wrote:BIRCH GROVE and MOONLIGHT DOMEBad-ordered at CHI on April 26. Revised movement is
train 30(26) from CHI to WAS
train 89(28) from WAS to SAV
dgvrengineer wrote:Four PV's supposed to go out on SW Chief Thursday westbound to LA, including a full dome. We were supposed to go on CZ but at the last minute (last week Tuesday) Amtrak decided they couldn't handle 4 PV's because of "flooding". With all the rain today in Missouri, I hope the Chief will not be flooded out.BERLIN, CIMMARON RIVER, PACIFIC UNION and SUPERDOME. Will probably have to operate on the head end of train 3 due to the Kansas City set-out coach on the rear.
John_Perkowski wrote:HUH?This move of 4 private cars was originally planned and advertised to go west from Chicago to Emeryville on train 5 with a layover in Denver. Then a few weeks before departure, Amtrak notified the car owners that it would not handle the cars on train 5; they would have to use train 3 to LAX, then train 14 to OAK, incurring the additional mileage expense from LAX to OAK plus the high (at more than $2000 it is the highest private car switch fee on the entire Amtrak system) for switching the cars off train 14 at OAK.
3-4 don’t get inside 100 miles ofDenver. That’s 5-6.
Is there an exception for Oakland, CA, to cut off PV from the Starlight and put them on the Zephyr?
Tadman wrote:Interesting that they would sell a diner but scrap Ocean ViewI will bet you at some point cooler heads prevail, and it will be sold with a covenant not to run as a PV on Amtrak.