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Even now, top and tailed Regional trains aren't going to get busted apart. On an Ad Hoc basis, if a Regional train is chasing 92 a few minutes behind into Alexandria, they can evacuate there. But checked baggage is another matter, just like a Roanoke train and the Crescent sometimes have a...

I was referring only to the logistics of thru cars that won't work.

With thru cars, it becomes which NEC train northbound. Some of those trains come from Virigina, and then if 92 is late, then what ? Then some of the NE Regional trains are bi-directional, topped-and tailed. Works on paper, not in reality. I haven't looked at 92's performance, but we'll see how...

Given the lack of timetables and that I don't feel like researching the reservation system to figure it out, just asking those familiar what if one of the Piedmont round trips with N.C. equipment were extended to DC or just Richmond, same platform connection to a NE Regional train in either case...

I suspect the Silver Star and Capitol Ltd will be marketed as two separate trains whose equipment just happens to run through, with everyone one thrown off at DC, just as they had same day thru operations of the Empire Builder / City of New Orleans, Southwest Chief / Captiol Ltd, and Texas...

NJT is interested in taking people to Manhattan, not much else, and not to Philly - Harrisburg. NJT is not going to pay Penn DOT to add Keystone train stops in New Jersey. NJT subsdized Clockers for $10 million a year until it added 3 NJT frequencies north of Trenton to take their place...

Tracks 7 - 8 are also fair game for Empire trains.

This does remind me of a situation in the 1990's, just before the Cap Ltd went Superliner, that there was a thru coach Florida - Chicago tacked on the rear of ecah train (An Amfleet-2, not Heritage). I don't remember what the schedules were then, long before they yanked 40/41, but Amtrak is...

When I rode it in 2016, consist of the combined train was: Jonquire F40 Jonquire Coach Jonquire Baggage Senneterre F40 Senneterre Baggage Senneterre Coach

So they are going to have to find someone who will build a clone of the Silverliner V, the original manufacturer having left the US ? Maybe Kawasaki ConnDOT M-8 with 25 cycle transformers, but with traps ?

So much for playing copycat with NJT, then going for the cheap imitation. The Silverliner IV, equivalent of the NJT Arrow II, must be pushing 50 y.o. about now. NJT scrapped their version 30 years ago.

That is a HEP-II Corridor coach, thankfully with the old seats. (The new seats I sat in 2019 are horrible). I thought the remote trains always had one of the 3 non-CP HEP-I coaches that has a galley.

Is that the same menu as the Corridor trains from the cart ?

The Horizon cars are 10 years younger than Amfleet-1. I don't buy that excuse.

Seems like a lot of money for a 250 mile extension of a Keystone train. I think the Pennsylvanian costs something like $5 million, though that was a few years ago. But a 2nd frequency on an existing route with no additional fixed costs should cost less than the first. To what extent that are NS...

I mean turn seat half the rows after EACH trip so that all 15 face forward for the next trip.

A 60 seat Business car means 7 or 8 seat rows would have to turned. That would take about 5 minutes and I think should be a required perk for all the money they charge you for that "free" $3 cup of coffee.

I was just reading my 1971 Amtrak national timetables. The May 1 schedule had nameless trains with Penn Central train numbers. Forget that. November was the first real Amtrak timetable. There were never 3 trains a day to Pittsburgh. The Broadway and National Ltds were combined east of...

Three Rivers.

I don't think Tilley is calling for rebuilding as an altenative, but knows full well new cars are 10 years off and the national network will not survive that long. Amtrak also needs to buy off and get Superliners from the Surfliners, and replace with Horizons from Beech Grove or Seattle and/or...