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Tonight's train 19 tops out at 163 passengers on board at Alexandria Virginia. 130 in coach 30 in the sleepers and 3 in Business Class. After Lynchburg Va, Business Class is empty until Taccoa Ga where 4 people are scheduled to board.

Also in DC and walking distance from Union Station are The National Archives, the SPY Museum, and The National Building Museum. For a great and cheap lunch, hit up one of the street corner hot dog vendors for a couple of Half -smokes with chili! mmmmm

. On long distance trains, the operating crew, especially in the middle portion where the major 'lift' of tickets has already been accomplished, often seems to be little more than "along for the ride, in case something happens".... Along for the ride... that's funny right there!

There is also a tunnel just North of Lynchburg Va. But this time of year it's dark outside when the train passes through it, so it hard to notice.

A daily Cardinal is a long way off. Even if all of the other conditions were met, Amtrak does not have enough qualified crew members to operate the train between Huntington WV and Charlottesville Va. The length of the run requires 2 engineers in the cab. With the current schedule, each crew...

Please please, tell your Amtrak server who has been away from home for several days and worked 3 meal periods per day that you are not tipping them because you think they are making enough money. That way they wont't think you are a cheapskate... just uncaring.

A tip should be based on the service that you received. You shouldn't tip more because you believe a server is making minimum wage or less because you think the server is well compensated.

Because of the schedule,an engineer qualifying on the Cardinal can only make 3 one-way trips per week. There is a lot of mileage to cover and in winter months, a good portion of the westward trip is in darkness.

Depends on how long of a run. The Cardinal uses 1 engineer between Washington and Charlottesville and 2 are required between Charlottesville and Huntington.

Also, more crews would be needed. It takes almost 2 years for an engineer to become qualified between Charlottesville Va. and Huntington WV.

The private car "Cannonball" has been sitting on track 9 in Washington Union Station since before National Train Day. The car appears to be un-occupied and there is some damage on the A end of the car. The damage does not seem to be significant enough to prevent the car from moving. Does...

I dont have access to the book at this moment. I will look it up when I get a chance.

Your best bet would be to purchase a room. Amtrak's Service Standards Manual says that a passenger cannot buy two seats to avoid having someone sit next to them.

There is 1 coach attendant between WAS and CHI. None between NYP and WAS

Thats gonna be harder to do now. If you have one conductor working the baggage car, its going to take awhile to get to all of the doors.

Rumor is that the order to change the consist came from Indy. No idea why it would matter to them. This makes it difficult to work the train at stops with short platforms. Even at Charlottesville which has a long platform, there was some confusion yesterday as 8 passengers were boarded in the...

The set of equipment that came in as train 50 last night will be set up this way too when it comes out as 51 tomorrow.

Nope. One of the coaches was ahead of the cafe and two were behind it.

Norfolk Southern is using the Auto-Router and it hasn't been the most efficient way to dispatch trains.

There is a very strong rumor floating about that says tomorrow's Cardinal (51) will have and unusual configuration. They say the consist will have a baggage car behind the locomotive, followed by the viewliner sleeper, then a coach, then the diner lite, and finally 2 more coaches. Its gonna be...