Help Identifying an LD Train

[Thunder Road]

This past Saturday, then again today, I saw a northbound LD train near CWH on the NEC between at around 2:30 pm. I figure it must be the Star, Meteor, or Crescent. But it had its 2 Viewliners and baggage car on the back. According to TrainWeb, the consist for all three of these trains is to have these cars at the front.

Also, there isn't a train scheduled for that time (going off the PHL and TRE times) and I think it would be an odd coincidence for the same train to be almost the exact number of minutes late on two separate occasions.

So what's going on here?

 

[John Bobinyec]

This past Saturday, then again today, I saw a northbound LD train near CWH on the NEC between at around 2:30 pm. I figure it must be the Star, Meteor, or Crescent. But it had its 2 Viewliners and baggage car on the back. According to TrainWeb, the consist for all three of these trains is to have these cars at the front.

Also, there isn't a train scheduled for that time (going off the PHL and TRE times) and I think it would be an odd coincidence for the same train to be almost the exact number of minutes late on two separate occasions.

So what's going on here?

92-9 departed Philadephia at 1.56 p.m. and Trenton at 2.29 p.m. on 3/10. You can get historic information about each train from the archive section of Amtrak Status Maps.

Right now the Star is running approximately 5 hours early.

The consists of the Star, Meteor and Crescent are reversed in the winter.

jb