Good guess P40. There is absolutely no need to add another baggage car to handle larger loads. Unless you add a substantial number of cars to a train (especially coaches, and when I say add I mean 2-3 more coaches) there is no need to add another baggage car. The piles in the baggage car can be made as big as necessary, and as tall as necessary. Also two baggage cars makes things a lot harder when picking up items at a station, for instance, "Oh this needs to go to the other car," and things like that. What I imagine they do on the LSL is use one baggage car for that section (let's say it's the Boston side) as well as the other intermediate stops, while the New York baggage car would handle just New York bags going west. Going east, well that's just a big pain in the butt for that Conductor out of Albany to break down.P40Power said:
To the best of my knowledge, the LSL breaks out it's baggage based upon which train you are booked on. For example if you are booked into a 448 car or sleeper, and you check baggage, then your bags will go into the Boston bag. This is true even if you are only riding between say Syracuse and Chicago.battalion51 said:
I'm fully aware that double spots are not unusual.battalion51 said:
I was pointing out however, that in the case of the LSL, had we only had one bag we not have needed to double spot.
Unless you're riding the Sunset Limited through Maricopa and experience a famous octa-stop (train stops/spots 6-8 times. The platform could barely accomodate two superliner cars if very carefully spotted, but usually only ends up being one per stop).AlanB said:
