Silver Star/Silver Meteor combined train (Jan - Oct 2022)
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Orlando has pretty serious PSRs throughout the city, so the slower speed is not really due to diesel engines.
On the NEC of course it is most likely doing 110mph, which it is restricted to due to the presence of the Viewliner I cars in the consist.
But it is easier to count the cars in my video.I was thinking the same thing.
My train is faster than your train!
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Yep. Look in the Abbreviations again
Who be the we? Someone will have to pay SunRail to raise speed limits on anything in their territory beyond what they need. They barely keep their nose above financial ruin level at present.
The story is pretty much the same with most host freight railroads, except that they are in much better financial shape usually than SunRail.
True, poor wording on my part. I wish that railroads could could upgrade tracks.* I understand why it doesn't happen, but I can dream...Yep. Look in the Abbreviations again
Who be the we? Someone will have to pay SunRail to raise speed limits on anything in their territory beyond what they need. They barely keep their nose above financial ruin level at present.
The story is pretty much the same with most host freight railroads, except that they are in much better financial shape usually than SunRail.
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Maybe time to do the same thing that Capital corridor does to keep higher speeds??
Which is?
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Ah, okay. I think that's probably worth it for corridor services, but probably not long distance services.
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The tracks are owned by the state of FL, and they're only used by SunRail, plus 4 Amtraks a day (non-COVID) and probably a couple of local freights. There's no compelling reason to upgrade.
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Should I have gotten notice if this affects my already booked trips DC to ORL and back; and if not, how do I check?
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Just put the same stations and dates into the booking page duplicating what you've already got, to see if anything has changed. If it doesn't look right, phone.
We were on 91 on 3/19-20. We were 2 hours late for most of the trip. The highlights of the trip was having the best Red Cap ever in Philadelphia named Charles, and a wonderful car attendant (sorry, no name gotten) on sleeper #9110. Thank you both! Yes, they got big tips from me.
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I did this and I look fine, 91 going south and 98 going north, IIRC
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Different consist on today's 91(31) out of NYP:
Sleeper 9102 was a VL II instead of a VL I, so 4 VL II's + just 1 VL I.
There was a VL I sleeper deadheading behind the engine, but there was also one on 92(29), so it was probably unrelated to the extra VL II in revenue service.
It's viewable on the Ashland railcam @ 17:23 EDT for 12 hours, or tomorrow afternoon on the Plant City railcam.
Sleeper 9102 was a VL II instead of a VL I, so 4 VL II's + just 1 VL I.
There was a VL I sleeper deadheading behind the engine, but there was also one on 92(29), so it was probably unrelated to the extra VL II in revenue service.
It's viewable on the Ashland railcam @ 17:23 EDT for 12 hours, or tomorrow afternoon on the Plant City railcam.
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Minor nit.... 9112, not 9102.
I just came back from Alexandria on 91(30) in 9113/1. Trip back from the RPA Spring meeting.
I must say that finally CSX has done an excellent job with its track. It is now in superb condition.
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Hi all! I am taking the now Super Star (previously booked on the Meteor) next week from WAS to FTL. Have the trains been super late arriving to FL? I took this trip last year but it was pretty much on time. This is also the first time I will be in a roommette car 9113. I'm guessing that's a viewliner I based on previous threads ?
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I came back to FL on it arriving Orlando last Thursday. It was about an hour late.
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A member has created a tool he calls ASMAD that stores all departure times and allows you to search them and create various displays. Here's a display of the southbound Silver Star's departure delays at FTL over the past 31 days:
https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/a...t=d_dp&sort_dir=DESC&co=gt&limit_mins=&dfon=1Average Dp delay: 1 hour and 31 minutes late
Median Dp delay: 1 hour and 9 minutes late
And, yes, sleeper 9113 has been a VL I, but sometimes they will substitute a VL II if a VL I is not available.
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I don't know if this post should be in this forum. If not, feel free to move it. I've noticed that 91 and 92 always seems to lose time between Denmark, SC and Savannah, GA. Does anyone know why this is so?
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We came down to Ft. Lauderdale leaving on 3/19. It arrived 1 hour late. On 4/2-4 we were booked to take 92/91 from Ft. Lauderdale to Orlando and back. We cancelled, and drove the 2 hours and 45 minutes. Turns out that 91 got into Ft. Lauderdale last night 3 hours late. Tomorrow we fly home.
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