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Do you know if there are still plans to add a permanent fourth sleeper and permanent third sleeper to the Meteor and Star respectively in the future? Obviously with ~15 VL1's out of service they wouldn't do that for a while, but I heard that was the original plan with the VL2 order.

Does anyone know when the Silvers are going to get their 4th coach and (in the case of the Meteor) 3rd sleeper back? Surely restoring them to their pre-Covid consists would boost ridership.

Fair enough ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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According to this article, coach passengers finally got dining car access on the Silver Services.

Well, however they choose to apply Phase VII to the older equipment, it’s sure to be a radical departure from the status quo, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

I still think it’s an absolute shame that the VL1 refurbishment program to bring them pretty much completely in line with the VL2 design was canceled, as the above photo is evidence of how nice it would have been.

Of note I think is the proposal on page 157 to establish a “Long Distance Public Committee” and analysis of the network every 5 years for improvement. These would do wonders for even the current network without expansion.

The complete map for anyone who doesn’t want to scroll through the PDF:

No one has mentioned it (though it may not even be a problem), but what about the different power systems? North of New Haven is newer ~25 year old catenary built to 60hz standards, but south of NH is much older (~90 year old) catenary built to 25hz standards. Does the older catenary/power...

I’ve noticed that as of late, it’s really a gamble whether the Meteor will have a VL2 or not… I wonder why? (ignoring the obvious answer of equipment availability) Furthermore, at some point it went back down again from 4 coaches to 3, and still hasn’t regained its 3rd sleeper. I guess Hialeah...

This is great news. I assume that the 7 will be used to finally re-equip the CL and TE, as IIRC the CL uses 3 trainsets and the TE uses 4.

Well, seeing how the "infrastructure" that was removed was literally just a car wash, I don't think it would be exuberantly expensive to put one back. Furthermore, there's a small 7 track yard just to the south of TUS that CSX uses to serve only one customer. I don't think it would be impossible...

Go to This Link and scroll down to the bottom. You will see "Contact Us" with text boxes to input your name, email, and the comment. I'd recommend writing your comment in Google Docs/Word and copy-pasting it into the comment box, but that's just me. Glad to see someone else that shares my view...

Does anyone know if Amtrak is ever going to complete the renaming of the VL1 sleepers to the River series? Only two out of the 49 still in service have been done...

Obviously the map is zoomed out so it's hard to tell, but the route wouldn't go via Daytona, as that would require a connection between the FEC and the CSX A-Line :)

Hopefully by "in support of" you mean you're for and not against S-Line service ;) It's a shame that it didn't make it through the initial prioritization, but things can always change right? I'm honestly not sure how easily CSX might agree or not. Their new CEO seems to at least be a bit more...

Sorry for bumping the thread, but I can't seem to find the contract restrictions mentioned here and in other threads banning Amtrak from operating over the S-Line (excluding re-routes). Granted, I may have missed it, but I've been poring through the contracts available at SunRail's website and...

I recently submitted a comment discussing restoration of service over the CSX S-Line in Florida. I don't know if it will help, but it can't hurt.

Sorry if I don't understand what you mean, but Amtrak has 70 VL2 baggage cars on roster. How is that going to be an issue?