Lake Shore Limited #48 (5/26)

Any body know by patterns or have any other info if 48(26) will have the Viewliner Diner and if the sleepers will be up front? Saw a YouTube video from 5/23 that showed all 3 up front

I think the sleepers are always up front on the #48, because they have to put the Boston section on the back (& don't want Boston coach pax walking through the sleepers to reach the diner...).

oregon pioneer said:

I think the sleepers are always up front on the #48, because they have to put the Boston section on the back (& don't want Boston coach pax walking through the sleepers to reach the diner...).

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Actually, they put the NY sleepers on the rear and the Boston sleeper upfront normally. Sometimes when there are disruptions on the line to/from Boston, all three sleepers will be together out of NY, which may have been the case in that video. But the normal pattern is 1 up front, 2 in the rear.

AlanB said:

oregon pioneer said:

I think the sleepers are always up front on the #48, because they have to put the Boston section on the back (& don't want Boston coach pax walking through the sleepers to reach the diner...).

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Actually, they put the NY sleepers on the rear and the Boston sleeper upfront normally. Sometimes when there are disruptions on the line to/from Boston, all three sleepers will be together out of NY, which may have been the case in that video. But the normal pattern is 1 up front, 2 in the rear.

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Ah! That must have been one of the days they ran a separate stub train from Albany to Boston. They did that regularly for awhile some years back. Boston sleeper pax had to ride in coach cars (and the Boston SCA went with them). I got that "service" once, and another time I had to ride in a combo business/cafe car because there was no sleeper. It makes sense they'd run all three sleepers together when they run the stub train.

Don't know why I can't seem to remember the Boston sleeper in the front... maybe it's because I ride the EB more often, and I *know* the Portland sleeper *is* always the the back (train fan window).

There is a disruption for tomorrow's train out of Chicago, so all three sleepers will go thru to NY. My biggest question was will they be in the front of back as the other Viewliner trains are running with sleepers upfront again