Like they do on Keystones many times each day? Does not seem like a showstopper.
Keystones do not turn the seats anywhere. Half of each car faces one way and the other half the other way. Customers can choose to sit whichever way they want assuming appropriately pointed seat is available.
Negative, you have to run all the way into the station to make reverse back towards PIttsfield.
Looking at the schedule because there is no departure time listed, I assume Yonkers is a D station on the return.
No, actually there is a cutoff south of ALB to the line between Boston and Selkirk. The LSL used this backup move for years until the cutoff line was built right out of the ALB station.
There is no way to get to Pittsfield from Hudson while moving continuously in a single direction. You have to either back up at ALB or you have to backup from the CSX Hudson bridge/Selkirk.
The cutoff connects to the B&A facing only towards Selkirk. There is no way to get to Pittsfield without doing a backup move then from Selkirk or at least from the Hudson Bridge.
I guess that is how we went from Selkirk back to New York on last year's Autumn Express....I just couldn't remember the complete track layout at that junction.....There is no way to get to Pittsfield from Hudson while moving continuously in a single direction. You have to either back up at ALB or you have to backup from the CSX Hudson bridge/Selkirk.
The cutoff connects to the B&A facing only towards Selkirk. There is no way to get to Pittsfield without doing a backup move then from Selkirk or at least from the Hudson Bridge.
When the LSL Boston section used that routing, it pulled forward onto the bridge past the connection, then backed up down the cutoff to Schodack's landing and joined the Empire Route, and then pulled forward into Albany.
CSX will probably let you even run at 100mph west of Hoffman's before they will allow that move again on a regular basis.
It would be in the schedule, marked as such.
This is exactly right. One proposal was to build connection that would allow a movement onto the B&A to continue running forward, but was deemed too expensive by the study group.There is no way to get to Pittsfield from Hudson while moving continuously in a single direction. You have to either back up at ALB or you have to backup from the CSX Hudson bridge/Selkirk.
The cutoff connects to the B&A facing only towards Selkirk. There is no way to get to Pittsfield without doing a backup move then from Selkirk or at least from the Hudson Bridge.
When the LSL Boston section used that routing, it pulled forward onto the bridge past the connection, then backed up down the cutoff to Schodack's landing and joined the Empire Route, and then pulled forward into Albany.
CSX will probably let you even run at 100mph west of Hoffman's before they will allow that move again on a regular basis.
On the Autumn Express, we came north on the River Line and turned left into Selkirk Yard. There we reversed direction, went across the Castleton Cutoff bridge across the Hudson and then down the Castleton Connection to Schodack's Landing where we joined the Amtrak Empire Corridor headed towards New York.
