UP Derailment on Sunset Ltd. Route.

[jruff001]

And the thread was still derailed because most of the other food posts do not address that question.

Yep. In the Amtrak Armchair CEO World, the only thing Amtrak management should focus on is LD dining car food. Nothing else matters in actually operating the trains.

 

[flitcraft]

Aramark caters to many jails and prisons as well.

Well, that does explain a lot.

 

[frequentflyer]

Most modern diesels do not, since they can run the prime mover at very low speed to just power the HEP. The HEP is fed from an additional inverter on the main DC bus, the same one that has the traction alternators hanging off of it. The power demand placed on the bus determines how fast the prime mover is run to get the alternator to produce enough power to satisfy the demand. When there is low power demand the prime mover runs only as hard as it needs to to satisfy that demand. Wonders of solid state power electronics. An added advantage is regenerated power feeds the HEP first before feeding anything to the dynamic grid or battery or whatever one does with surplus power in the locomotive. Of course in elecrics the surplus is fed back to the catenary if it is receptive.

And of course they are also Tier IV prime movers.

In the P42 generation, there is a special HEP only non traction mode, which essentially does the same thing. That is why when at a stop it is determined that the stop will be long, you momentarily lose HEP power as they transition the engine from traction mode to HEP mode. And then just before starting to move again they change the mode to traction momentarily switching off HEP for the transition.

In the F40 generation unless HEP was provided by a separate pony motor, it was the prime mover that was screaming away at a stop providing HEP and waking up even the dead within miles of the stop.

But who forget after arriving on your LD train in Chicago Union Station walking past the second F40 unit high pitch roar reverberating off the low ceilings. I sure didn't.

 

[railiner]

I think Aramark will deliver stuff commensurate with whatever you write in the mutually agreed upon contract with a mutually agreed upon price. I doubt Aramark is the problem here.

Exactly! Aramark caters to many jails and prisons as well.

Well, that does explain a lot.

Wait...doesn't Aramark cater the Congressional Dining Room, too?

 

[desertflyer]

Everything back to normal since the derailment? I mean besides food in the diner.

 

[Cal]

Everything back to normal since the derailment? I mean besides food in the diner.

Seems like it

 

[jis]

Wait...doesn't Aramark cater the Congressional Dining Room, too?

No. Sodexho for now for the House of Representatives side.

 

[Rasputin]

Yep. In the Amtrak Armchair CEO World, the only thing Amtrak management should focus on is LD dining car food. Nothing else matters in actually operating the trains.

That is an understatement. We are also concerned about the cleanliness of toilets, the lack of which seems to have contributed to many "never agains."

 

[railiner]

No. Sodexho for now for the House of Representatives side.

Is that a similar operation to Aramark?
A contract caterer?

 

[jis]

Is that a similar operation to Aramark?
A contract caterer?

Yes, the other big one. Senate uses some other smaller caterer the name of which I forget.

 

[Rasputin]

Is that a similar operation to Aramark?
A contract caterer?

Yes it is. I have known several Aramark chefs who worked at the local college when Aramark had the contract there and I have sampled their fare. If these people were put in charge of an Amtrak dining car and provided with the proper provisions, I would be pretty pleased.