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How many cars does the Capital Limited have these days?
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Triley
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It has changed off and on a few times during the past month. It looks like this week is back to normal, for example today's 29 has got a good mix.
2 P42s
Baggage Car
Transitional Dorm
2 Sleepers
Diner/Lounge Combo
Lounge
Baggage/Coach Combo
2 Coaches
And then the past two days and today as well, we have a sleeper on the end deadheading to Chicago, to Beech Grove it appears.
2 P42s
Baggage Car
Transitional Dorm
2 Sleepers
Diner/Lounge Combo
Lounge
Baggage/Coach Combo
2 Coaches
And then the past two days and today as well, we have a sleeper on the end deadheading to Chicago, to Beech Grove it appears.
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neroden
Engineer
Is the deadheading sleeper a Superliner or Viewliner? Inquiring minds want to know. 
I did a double-take on the title of this thread. I wondered if it was about Amtrak's perennial shortage of funds...Capital Limited.
Triley
Real Lead Service Attendant
Superliner.Is the deadheading sleeper a Superliner or Viewliner? Inquiring minds want to know.
FormerOBS
Conductor
It's named after the U. S. Capitol ------ with an "O".
abcnews
OBS Chief
Heading westbound form Washington in a few days, and I was wondering what is the current consist. I read there was only a CCC (Diner/Lounge) rather than a full diner and a Sightseer Lounge.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Ryan
Court Jester
P42
Sleeper
Sleeper
CCC
Coach
Coach
Sleeper
Sleeper
CCC
Coach
Coach
abcnews
OBS Chief
Just wondering...
Only one engine? Heritage baggage?
Is there a Transdorm plus two sleepers?
Only one engine? Heritage baggage?
Is there a Transdorm plus two sleepers?
Ryan
Court Jester
Yes.
No.
No.
No.
No.
abcnews
OBS Chief
So it's a rather small consist. 5 cars and one engine.
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I hated the Capitol Limited the one time I rode on it specifically because it lacked a sightseer lounge. I saw two lounge cars just sitting in Portland when I was there last week and another rider told me he saw them being used on the Cascades trains. If they have extra lounges, there is no reason for there not to be one on the CL.
OlympianHiawatha
Engineer
This is the modified consist which will be in place until sometime in March; hopefully then the Sightseer will return.
Amtrak says they are using the slow season to get caught up on maintenance and servicing of the LD equipment. If there are several in Portland, they may be being used for the Coast Starlight and Empire Builder or being moved for that matter. According to the service alert, the reduced consist is to end on February 28.
As to why shrink the consist, consider these monthly ridership numbers in 2014 for the CL:
August: 22,816 (and this was during the early stages of the Norfolk Southern meltdown)
versus
January: 16,328
February: 13,561
The ridership in both January and February 2014 was up over the same months in 2013, so those are not anomalies.
As Ryan mentioned, 5 car consist for our 30 and 29 last week. Second sleeper served some of the crew as their dorm. A combo bag/coach instead of a regular baggage car. Not many riding in sleepers...diners were many times holding only 8 people or so at a time. And only one loco.
TrainLoverJoy
Lead Service Attendant
I had a different experience on Monday......our 3001 car was directly behind the engines. (I love the horn, but directly behind the engine, not so much.......)
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I rode out on 29 with the short consist on Wednesday evening (1/28). The CCC wasn't all that bad, considering the small number of passengers. They had hourly dinner seatings between 5 and 9, but the diner section was pretty much empty after 8 PM. I missed the SSL, as my room was on the left (south) side of the train, which meant that the sun was in my eyes for the hour and a half or so to Harpers Ferry that the sun was up. I hung out in the lounge the next morning, and I had a fine view of the Indiana Dunes, Lake Michigan near Hammond-Whiting, and the steel mills.
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