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Thanks, That is helpful, John

Hello all, What is the normal consist for the Silver Service trains, the Meteor and Star? You alls help would be appreciated. Thanks, John

Veolia is the new name for Connex. The name changed last year. I work in the bus side of public transit. Our system contracts with Veolia for operations. They are much larger on the bus side. They are international in scope, originally from France. John

Group, I am doing some train resistance calculations on passenger trains to determine the amount of power needed to move a train over a certain grade / curvature. I am trying to find the car weights for: Viewliner Amfleet Horizon Superliner Talgo Bilevel commuter cars like the Kawasaki...

hello What is the DASH 8 experiment? john

hello Amtrak might be wise to move some of their lower level managers out of home base and put them on the trains. Make them chief of onboard service. This position could be directly responsible for all staff on the train. Give the chief position the responsibility to asses the performance...

hello it looks to be the hallway side of a dining car. the first six windows are the dinning room. the first and last of these windows seem to be retrofitted with amfleet emergency windows. the last four windows are in the hall next to the kitchen. the square of stainless closes to you may...

hello phase VI for the cars Phase V for the engines three tracks merging

hello east bound main 80 mph stick rail harrisburg to septa ownership. westbound main 90 mph welded rail all the way to harrisburg. Electrification is still operable and has been used about once a month to keep corrosion down. John

hello I will have to go with the new 3 sheets logo. It looks more modern. the arrow looked very 70's.

hello I have always wondered. Why doesn't amtrak have first class coach. the ticket could be a little more than coach. a standard coach could be used putting it next to the sleepers. First class coach passengers would get meals included and the use of the shower in the sleeping cars. also...

hello On the origanal question. A viewliner dome diner build to the union pacific plan would be neat. Also a viewliner dome observation sleeper similar to the plans of the origanal California Zephyr cars but with showers in the rooms. Probabaly never, Oh Well, John

hello A twin unit viewliner diner could be build for larger trains like the old Pennsy twin unit diners. Or the diner could be for first class only and the snack car upgraded with a kitchen for meal service for the coach passengers. This would keep only 2 foodservice cars per train and not 3...

hello First for Empirebuilderfan dome viewliner lounge cars could substitute for superliners. I am for having all one type of fleet for saving money Less parts to stock, easier to train technicans etc. and it would be easier to utilize rolling stock. Sourhwest airlines only flies 737 and...

hello I think viewliner is right dont make silver service superliner. In my opinion amtrak should phase out all superliners over the next 30 years and be all viewliner equipped except for highspeed trainsets. Did yall know the double decker California cars were built by Amerrail the builders...