Cars added to todays 51 in Indianapolis.

[Steve4031]

When I got off in Chicago I saw a superliner sleeper and a viewliner sleeper and two or three baggage cars. The superliner did not have the refurb with the gray seats. Cars were cleaned and I assumed they were being returned to Chicago after servicing. There was an engine at the front of the deadhead cars. Then Engine and rest of 51.

 

[jiml]

You must have picked up from Beech Grove. The last time we took the Cardinal eastbound they dropped two cars and a loco there.

 

[jis]

When I got off in Chicago I saw a superliner sleeper and a viewliner sleeper and two or three baggage cars. The superliner did not have the refurb with the gray seats. Cars were cleaned and I assumed they were being returned to Chicago after servicing. There was an engine at the front of the deadhead cars. Then Engine and rest of 51.

They often form the Hospital Train as a full fledged train with its own loco, and just hitch it onto the Card. That way they don't have to make any further special moves to attach an engine to the Hospital stock at Indy. It is ready to go to or come from Beech Grove with its own power.