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Hopefully someone here can help me out with this - exhaustive searching on a variety of Amtrak forums turned up nothing specific.
I took the Palmetto north from Washington DC the other night. I know the diesel is swapped for an electric at Union Station but I can't figure out how, exactly. My assumption was that the diesel pulled into the station, dropped off the train, and then headed off solo to the yard. Then, the electric with the extra NEC cars backed onto the train and proceeded north.
However, last night the inbound 90 Palmetto was marked as arriving at a nonadjacent gate to the outbound 90 Palmetto. Inbound 90 arrived at Gate G and the outbound 90 eft from Gate J Track 25. How would this work with the engine swap?
Secondly, on this forum I saw that the baggage car was moved to the end of the consist when the extra NEC cars started to get added. Why is this? Is it easier to couple the extra cars onto other passenger cars vs the baggage car?
I took the Palmetto north from Washington DC the other night. I know the diesel is swapped for an electric at Union Station but I can't figure out how, exactly. My assumption was that the diesel pulled into the station, dropped off the train, and then headed off solo to the yard. Then, the electric with the extra NEC cars backed onto the train and proceeded north.
However, last night the inbound 90 Palmetto was marked as arriving at a nonadjacent gate to the outbound 90 Palmetto. Inbound 90 arrived at Gate G and the outbound 90 eft from Gate J Track 25. How would this work with the engine swap?
Secondly, on this forum I saw that the baggage car was moved to the end of the consist when the extra NEC cars started to get added. Why is this? Is it easier to couple the extra cars onto other passenger cars vs the baggage car?