Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover
Post Number: 456 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 4:50 pm: | |
I saw the mid afternoon Amtrak today with Superliner cars...or double decker passsanger cars. I wonder why this was? |
Alan55 Member Username: Alan55
Post Number: 2549 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 7:50 pm: | |
I have read that Amtrak in Michigan is capacity-constrained by not having enough rolling stock to handle the increase in passengesr they have experienced in the last several years. The article said that Amtrak would have served even more passengers than the record they had in 2008 if they had the cars. I suspect what you witnessed was Amtrak pressing every available railroad car into service. |
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100
Post Number: 1458 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 9:27 pm: | |
It's also possible the Horizon cars were frozen. The Superliner cars don't freeze, so they occasionally replace Horizon or Budd cars. |
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover
Post Number: 459 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:26 pm: | |
That's probably why Scs, when I took Amtrak a few weekends ago to Chicago, they cancelled our 7 am train (went by bus instead ) because of the freezing. For a moment I thought Detroit had commuter rail. |
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1673 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 4:18 pm: | |
what do you mean by "freezing"? what freezes? which cars are which? (Message edited by gravitymachine on January 28, 2009) |
Dtowncitylover Member Username: Dtowncitylover
Post Number: 464 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 4:31 pm: | |
Superliner=double decker Horizon=one floor Also, I don't remember a Cafe Car, but perhaps that was intergrated with one of the cars. But Gravity, I don't know either. Perhaps the rails or the engine...that's all they told us. |
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1674 Registered: 05-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 4:51 pm: | |
i was wondering what the distinction was between horizon and budd cars was. i know some times trains are made up of some cars with a square cross section and larger windows, and others with a more trapazoidal cross section with smaller windows. just wondering if scs100 knew which was which and if he had more info on them |
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 730 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 4:54 pm: | |
Engines fill with snow. Lavatory pipes freeze. Rail Switches freeze and have to be cleared. http://articles.latimes.com/20 08/dec/24/nation/na-winter-oha re-amtrak24 |
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100
Post Number: 1459 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 8:17 pm: | |
Horizon cars have one contiguous window (the long piece of glass). Budd cars look like aluminum cans and have separated windows (the bar in the middle of the window). Budd
Horizon
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Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 881 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 2:20 am: | |
Saw the superliner cars myself, and I swear it wasn,t the 1st time. |