So why not combine the two trains and have Silver Star run to Chicago?
Never understood why the Silver Meteor was considered the premier train of the two. The Silver Star goes to bigger population centers.
So there is a rumor over on Trainorders of the Capital Limited going single level and the Silver Star stopping at Washington DC instead of NYC. The Cap would use the Silver Star's equipment and the Superliners would love back west. Or possibly combined into one train?
Back in the day, didn't...
Weird, last night 22 was three locomotives and 8 cars long leaving Texas, but today in STL, over 4 hours late, it left with 5 cars and two locomotives.
So today's 22 from SAT is canceled of course and I guess tomorrow's 22 will look like the 22 from happier times with two locos , one of the two being ferried back to CHI, pulling 8 Superliners. No need to add the Superliner coach in STL.
How is it a dispatcher in DC or CHI thinks it makes sense to hold 1 at SAT instead of putting connecting pax on a charter out of Temple or Austin and meet 1 at El Paso. Back in the good ole days of the 80s and 90s, Amtrak a few times put them on a SWA flight in DAL and flew them to El Paso and...
Sarcasm on........................So glad Amtrak left Sunset Station, it was a step up moving to a bus station in the shadow of the Alamo Dome (that we visitors are still paying for through hotel taxes but that is another story)..............................Sarcasm off...