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I was just watching some videos on my phone of our Parlour car trips last year. I probably rode on Parlour car trains 50 times, almost from the beginning. This in its heyday was the best of the best of Amtrak in my opinion. Packed with people buying 2-3 bottles of wine.
We don’t know who bought the five cars yet. My question for those of you familiar with private rail car charters. How feasible would it be for the new owner to occasionally run one of them on the back of the Coast Starlight or any train for that matter. The Vino trains run regularly Lax to Sba. The Parlour cars are already up to Amtrak specs pending any scheduled checks. One big advantage I see is the high level consist and access to the rest of the train. If it ran the whole route people could go back to their sleepers or seats at night. Or just Lax to SBP on a Surfliner?
The car would have a built in audience from the get go. Once a week, twice a month? Is it feasible, how much would have to be charged per guest? Lax to SBP? LAX to SEA?
Ok so I looked at the Vino train website to see what it charges I thought it was around $200. The site says Amtrak won’t carry private cars lax to sba? Those are two endpoints? I thought that was the determining factor? So apparently my Parlour car idea under Anderson isn’t feasible...I still think it could work, if allowed.
Another side note the Surfliners are paid for by California. Is CA cool with Anderson turning away revenue..
We don’t know who bought the five cars yet. My question for those of you familiar with private rail car charters. How feasible would it be for the new owner to occasionally run one of them on the back of the Coast Starlight or any train for that matter. The Vino trains run regularly Lax to Sba. The Parlour cars are already up to Amtrak specs pending any scheduled checks. One big advantage I see is the high level consist and access to the rest of the train. If it ran the whole route people could go back to their sleepers or seats at night. Or just Lax to SBP on a Surfliner?
The car would have a built in audience from the get go. Once a week, twice a month? Is it feasible, how much would have to be charged per guest? Lax to SBP? LAX to SEA?
Ok so I looked at the Vino train website to see what it charges I thought it was around $200. The site says Amtrak won’t carry private cars lax to sba? Those are two endpoints? I thought that was the determining factor? So apparently my Parlour car idea under Anderson isn’t feasible...I still think it could work, if allowed.
Another side note the Surfliners are paid for by California. Is CA cool with Anderson turning away revenue..