Good question about the California dinette cars. No idea but it would be really nice for the service. Somehow doubt they'll be used for this service, though.Horizon cars are fine. The CHI-MSP-DUL "North Star" used Amfleet.
Could the 3 California Horizon dinette cars, idle since 2020 that Amtrak supposedly wants back for some reason, be used for this ?
Aurora Broealis: "A display of colored lights in the sky, also called northern lights, caused by the interaction of particles from the sun with the upper atmosphere near the North Pole."
If the Borealis name is indeed final, when this service and the (knock on wood) Northern Lights Express between Mpls - Duluth are running, there will be three routes in MN named for either stars or northern atmospheric phenomena (With the third, of course, being the Northstar commuter rail line from Mpls to Big Lake, MN).
Yes, I heard that as well! Between that issue with the GRRC (still don't understand their unhappiness) and (apparently) MnDOT and WisDOT flat-out not liking the name, I'm not shocked at the change!The Great River Rail Commission was throwing a fit over Amtrak trying to copyrighting the name “Great River” so that’s probably why the name was changed.
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