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I'm on #147 and the conductor just called the train The Cavalier. This is the ner we used to call The Lynchburger. He said it's official.
Amtrak crew making up stuff as they go along? Has been going on like forever.I'm on #147 and the conductor just called the train The Cavalier. This is the ner we used to call The Lynchburger. He said it's official.
Amtrak crew making up stuff as they go along? Has been going on like forever.
If VDOT wants their train named, I am sure Amtrak will oblige.If they name the Carolinian and Palmetto why not Roanoke service. I’d vote for the Virginian. Not very innovative but works for that route. 66/67 should be named the Cannonball after a similar overnight service on that route albeit via N&W from Norfolk rather than C&O from News.
Amtrak apparently had five named Boston to Washington trains in the mid '70s. They were The Senator, The Minute Man, The Colonial, The Patriot and The Merchants Limited, in addition to the venerable Night Owl. The Night Owl and the Hilltopper (Boston - New York - Washington - Tri-State Station KY) apparently ran together as a single train from Boston to Washington at least in 1978. The Hilltopper ran via RVR, Petersburg (Fleet St. and Grove St - not Ettrick served by the Florida trains) and Lynchburg (Woodall Rd. Station - not Kemper St. which the Southern Crescent served).Via Rail Canada’s “Cavalier”, was the overnight Montreal/Toronto train.
Fun to see how things were back in the '70s!
If VDOT wants their train named, I am sure Amtrak will oblige.
Cannonball would be confusing, since LIRR has the Cannonball service to Montauk.
65/66/67 should simply be given its old name Night Owl back.
Good place to roll out those "lie-flat" seats being talked about elsewhere.The night Owl should be saved until sleeper service is started for the train. Then that would appeal to WASH & BOS patrons and sound as a new and improved service ?
Of COURSE! So does the whole country, owing to the popularity of the song "Wabash Cannonball," probably the most popular C/W song of all time. Cf. https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/152354 which many readers might enjoy. https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/152354At one time, some of those corridor name trains were widely recognized...
The premier Boston to New York train was The Merchants Limited, at one time all-parlor cars. Finest and fastest New York to Washington train was the stainless steel Afternoon Congressional. Top thru Boston to Washington train was The Senator, or overnite Federal.
When reading the name “Cannonball”, I think of the N&W acquired Wabash Cannonball, which ran between Detroit and St. Louis...
Which is another way of saying it will never happen in the next ten years or so?Good place to roll out those "lie-flat" seats being talked about elsewhere.
There are a lot of routes that I think overnight sleeper service would work for. I understand there are issues with the height of the cars and some low bridges, but I think it would be a great way to travel.
65/66/67, when it was called the Twilight Shoreliner, had a Viewliner sleeper than ran from Newport News to Boston.There is no problem with sleepers on the NEC south of NYP, nor north on the line parallel to the Hudson to Albany, since the Crescent, Silvers, and LSL run Viewliner sleepers on both those lines currently. Since the VLs are basically the same size as VL coaches, they should also fit fine through the East River tunnels and northeast to Boston.
Maybe you are thinking of the Superliners, which are much taller and won't fit through the New York tunnels and probably other bottlenecks on the NEC?
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