Superliner trains' removal and restoration of cars (2022-2023)

[MARC Rider]

That would be great but but the heritage diner (ex Seaboard) should have been replaced by a Viewliner 2 diner a while ago. Its hard to figure that if equipment was available, why the Crescent diner would have been removed in the first place but with Amtrak anything is possible..

Didn't the Crescent have a Viewliner 2 diner before the Pandemic?

 

[PVD]

I'm pretty sure I ate in one on a trip to Atlanta.

 

[lordsigma]

That would be great but but the heritage diner (ex Seaboard) should have been replaced by a Viewliner 2 diner a while ago. Its hard to figure that if equipment was available, why the Crescent diner would have been removed in the first place but with Amtrak anything is possible..

Didn't the Crescent have a Viewliner 2 diner before the Pandemic?

It did and with full service dining when it first ran on the train. Then when they went flexible the car stayed until Covid when they pulled it from the Crescent and stored some of the diners. When they began reinstating some of the service cuts they quietly gave the extra diners they still had over so they could run a diner on both the daily Meteor and Star which previously had been operating on separate days both with a diner instead and changed the Crescent to the single food car model that the Star was previously pre covid. Technically since the VL2 diners were delivered there has never been more in active service than there is presently as they never equipped all four trains at the same time - so if the Crescent benefits from the five diners being restored it will be the first time they’ve had that many running on trains.