Recent content by bmichel5581

sorta 305's equipment leaves chicago on, say, a friday....goes to KC (but i don't know as what train), then returns to STL Saturday night to become 300 sunday morning

The Lounge Attendant's are kind of hit or miss. I took a trip to Bloomington in Bus. class on 305 a couple weeks ago and we had a phenomenal LSA. Right before we left CUS , she came around and introduced herself to everyone, had everyone sign a sheet for there free beverage, came around and...

Sorta right... The extra cars are for 21. 58 backs into CUS onto the track with the cars...stopping short of the blue flag. Later on in the day, after the power has be sent to the yard for service/fuel and returned, they will couple up to the extra cars. The extra cars, sometimes a snack...

390 is the Northbound morning Saluki into CUS 391 is the Southbound morning Saluki to Carbondale but still, wow. I have a couple of ideas off hand who the conductor might have been, but i'm going to have to ask someone tonight and see if he heard anything.

11:38am offically :)

The new consist is an absolute freakin' nightmare. Not only do you have to deal with lounge food going through the diner more often now, but now on #58 at CHM, they have to deal with all the passengers walking back and forth through the diner with their luggage trying to find seats. It's only...

Tell that to the conductor I sometimes work with. Coming up the stairs on a Superliner, the train slapped, he didn't have time to react or grab on to anything, fell into the side of a chair and shattered his knee. He now has a nice "new" metal knee. Trust me. Stairs and trains don't go together.

At this point in time it makes FAR more sense to go to a Viewliner based LD fleet. After all, it was Amtrak who designed the Viewliners based on a long "wish list" of their's. Soooo, unless they're really disappointed with the Viewliners (which I doubt since Gunn was about to order Viewliner...