Green Maned Lion
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Im not sure what the issue is with getting that those options are not actually available?
I basically ignore the options, assuming they expired. At best the 70 cars give an idea of what Amtrak thought would be needed or could be used.Im not sure what the issue is with getting that those options are not actually available?
CAF spent a huge amount of effort recruiting and hiring stainless steel welders to build the shells -- that was the problem point. They need the same workers for their transit contracts. They will NOT want to lay them off, they might never get them back again.The main problem point of production (the car shells) ended long ago. They are just outfitting them again. Restarting production of car shells at this point might as well be from scratch. And I am certain CAF would want nothing to do with it unless they were being paid an absurd amount of money. And maybe not even then.
Wellll! Long time no see.....I don't see any state buying dining and/or sleeping cars. Even Washington and California got rid of full dining car service on their respective trains (both Cascades and San Joaquin used to have dining car-type service on their trains, but now those cars are just used as lounge/table cars with regular cafe-style service).
Further, I don't see any state spending money on a long-distance train that they don't have to (i.e. Lake Shore). It's not like state budgets are flush with cash.
Ms. Emma Roberts' character should arrive soon.
SEPTA managed to get the parts delivered by some other outfit to work around cracking problems in Columbia Casting's castings. Frankly, the GSI trucks and their parts are not rocket science, nor under any sort of IP protection. They have been around for ever, and any casting shop worth its salt should be able to handle it.So Columbus casting is shut down. Did they sell the casting blueprints and molds to any one else ? If so who ? For the successor if there is one how busy is the new builder ?
I have to admit, I ran through her entire IMDB page, and I didn't find a single character whose name resembled a city. Or, for that matter, a river (living in hope of more sleepers here)....Ms. Emma Roberts' character should arrive soon.
How do you guys decode this stuff?Impressive find of a photo! So Madison and Montgomery are next up? And Jackson and Lansing should be seeing service soon or will it take a full month from acceptance from CAF to them actually serving passengers?
Seems like we skipped a few capitals but the results are worth it.
On edit: If I am reading On Track On Line properly, Amtrak received 2 VLII diners in May of last year, 2 in June, none in July, 2 in August, 1 in September, none in October, 2 in November, 2 in December and may receive 2 in January. Call me too optimistic, but it seems like CAF may have gotten into a productive routine. 6 diners in 3 months isn't bad.
Ms. Emma Roberts' character should arrive soon.
How do you guys decode this stuff?Impressive find of a photo! So Madison and Montgomery are next up? And Jackson and Lansing should be seeing service soon or will it take a full month from acceptance from CAF to them actually serving passengers?
Seems like we skipped a few capitals but the results are worth it.
On edit: If I am reading On Track On Line properly, Amtrak received 2 VLII diners in May of last year, 2 in June, none in July, 2 in August, 1 in September, none in October, 2 in November, 2 in December and may receive 2 in January. Call me too optimistic, but it seems like CAF may have gotten into a productive routine. 6 diners in 3 months isn't bad.
Ms. Emma Roberts' character should arrive soon.
I highly doubt that. As for Jackson...........Jackson and Lansing were picked up December 11. The cars generally spend a month in Hialeah for completion, so we can expect the two cars to enter service in the next couple days. At that point there will be 13 solid cars (though I'm not gonna go another "13 is the magic number" tangent). So it is quite possible that the LSL gets its diner restored in the coming week or two.
Yeah. I more meant as a sort of theoretically-if-everything-goes-right kind of scenario.If Madison and Montgomery are coming, that would be...CEB2D9D6-8051-49CD-BE5C-8F318A5CFE9B.jpeg
I highly doubt that. As for Jackson...........Jackson and Lansing were picked up December 11. The cars generally spend a month in Hialeah for completion, so we can expect the two cars to enter service in the next couple days. At that point there will be 13 solid cars (though I'm not gonna go another "13 is the magic number" tangent). So it is quite possible that the LSL gets its diner restored in the coming week or two.
Howd you get 18? Thats about a 60% margin. When Lansing is finished, there will be five spares (when only running the SM and Crescent). Requiring 18 cars would mean theres a risk of 7 Viewliner diners breaking simultaneously. I could be wrong, but that seems like overkill.Unfortunately I suspect 18 is the magic number. There's no way to tell given that it's up to the whims of Amtrak, but we may be waiting until early April to see the LSL dining cars back.
I'm making my next trip in the spring, so here's hoping it happens by then.
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