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    Normal For Sleepers On Rear And Coach In Front?

    48 tonight is engines ,Viewliner Baggage, 4820, 4812, 4811, Viewliner Diner, cafe then coaches
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    Normal For Sleepers On Rear And Coach In Front?

    Yes. Baggage , trans dorm , 3 sleepers, PPC, Diner SSL 3-4 coaches on Starlight
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    Normal For Sleepers On Rear And Coach In Front?

    Been on a 10 day trip: On 5/18 LSL49. All 3 sleepers (4911,4912,4920) were all the way in the back with no baggage behind them due to ALB-BOS service disruption EB8 had sleepers upfront behind transdorm CS11 had sleepers upfront (ride was horrible on 1130, roughest ever on sleeper train) CZ6...
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    Lake Shore Limited #48 (5/26)

    There is a disruption for tomorrow's train out of Chicago, so all three sleepers will go thru to NY. My biggest question was will they be in the front of back as the other Viewliner trains are running with sleepers upfront again
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    Lake Shore Limited #48 (5/26)

    Any body know by patterns or have any other info if 48(26) will have the Viewliner Diner and if the sleepers will be up front? Saw a YouTube video from 5/23 that showed all 3 up front
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    Amtrak Derailment Philadelphia (5/12/2015)

    It looks like between the news coverage and riding along the NEC on the New Jersey Turnpike, that all the trains running today are powered by AEM-7's and no ACS-64's are running. Did anybody else notice this or see different?
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    Amtrak Derailment Philadelphia (5/12/2015)

    has anybody given an idea of how long the PHL-NYP section of the NEC will be down?
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    10- day trip in May NER-LSL-EB-CS-CZ-LSL-NER

    Going on a 10 day trip out to the west coast and back coming up in the end of May, I've done the cross country trip on Amtrak before but its been a couple years and I can't remember all the consist info and where rooms are and etc, I was hoping to get a better idea of where our cars will be on...
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    #66 Philly to Boston 12-8

    it was just the electric from philly to new haven they took it off and put 2 P-42's on it in new haven and left the electric there
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    #66 Philly to Boston 12-8

    took 66 to boston the other night in business class. fell asleep outside new haven and when i woke up in rhode island i could have swore i heard a P-42 chugging. AEM-7 was on point in philly. when i finally woke up and got off in boston 101 and 62 (P-42'S) were on the front and the electric...
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    zephyr

    y does the zephyr run with one engine facing fowards and one backwards where as most other trains they both face forward
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    49 Lake Shore Limited Horrible Service

    shame the trip started out with bad service, the westbound SWC the entire crew was perfect espically the SCA Alex from the extra board the east bound SWC #4 was not much better than 49 SCA was Joe Washington (0431 #8) saw him twice no bed service or anything and dinning car staff was far...
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    49 Lake Shore Limited Horrible Service

    OBS yes he was an older black guy with an accent
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    49 Lake Shore Limited Horrible Service

    yeah haha bouncing around in trrain now to impatient to do it the right way hahah i figured it would get the point across
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    49 Lake Shore Limited Horrible Service

    left New York on the LSL 49(6/7) in roomette 7 car 4912 kenny something was attendant couldnt get his name because i only saw him as i walked on and when he was outside in albany no bed turn down service, no body came for dinner reservations nothing what so ever. planning to call amtrak...
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    Name a legendary Amtrak worker (Good or Bad)

    the two best ive had were Claude on the Crescent and Anthony on the sunset limited the worst was johnny on the silver star
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    sleeping car climate control

    doing cross country round trip SWC and LSL NYP-LAX all in roomettes curious about temperature in roomettes i know the viewliner bedrooms are like ovens in the summer but dont know what the roomettes are like on either dont like to be overly hot so keeping my fingers crossed
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    Up coming trip booked today

    i read alot about the LSL being late in the past but itbseems better anyone know any specific scenic areas on either train to pay attention
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    Up coming trip booked today

    does anybody know anything as to how often the SWC and lake shore limited run behind schedule? or arr they pretty good about being on time?
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