There's a Heritage Crew Dorm sitting in the Chicago yard. It's in Phase VI paint (complete with the new "wave" logo) and appears to have been recently cleaned. Someone on YouTube got a video of it deadheading on the Hoosier State a while back. Any idea what it's doing in Chicago? Does it serve as a backup in the event that a Viewliner is bad-ordered?
Heritage Dorm in Chicago
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Green Maned Lion
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Its a car used by the Amtrak Inspector Generals office. Its basically similar in nature to Beech Grove or the like. Its not used for revenue.
cpamtfan
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Car 10021, the "Pacific Command". A former Heritage sleeper turned crew dorm turned inspection car.
Thanks for the info.
So what is done when a Viewliner is bad-ordered in Chicago? I've never had that happen out of CHI.
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Most of the time they substitute with an Amfleet II coach, which is what just happened on July 29th when I rode the LSL out of Chicago. Thankfully for me, it was a NY sleeper that was bad ordered and I was in the Boston sleeper.
But several crew members, as well as several paying customers spent the night in a special coach, rather than the expected sleeper.
cpamtfan
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That isn't half as bad as back when the great Viewliner debackle happened. I have a pic of the LSL (before it was turned to a NY based consist, with the stub to Boston) and one NY sleeper was replaced with a Horizon coach :lol:
, there was no BOS sleeper (not even a car in for it ). That consist looked horrible !
Green Maned Lion
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Since there are only two Viewliner trains (a total of 4 Viewliner cars) out of Chicago, and they do try to maintain a spare Viewliner in Chicago, usually they can sub it out. You need 50% of the cars to go bad for a oddball sub to happen. Especially since one of those trains are tri-weekly. That is probably why it is so rare. The VL train I see missing a car most often is, unsurprisingly, the Crescent.
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