When we took the Coast Starlight from Emeryville to LA several months ago, we were glad to have the Pacific Parlour Car in the consist. We enjoyed the seating, the views, the ambience and the meals there. We had a great atttendant in there as well. While we were talking to him, he said that when we arrived at our destination they would be taking the PCC off line because something wasn't right with it. But he couldn't or wouldn't tell us what the problem was. It really sounded like he wasn't permitted to say. It also sounded like there wouldn't be another PPC to replace it when they took it off.
Wondering what might have been wrong with it that it would need to go off-line and how many actual PPCs does Amtrak have? From what I'm reading, it sounds like the PPC doesn't run a fair amount of the time on the CS.
Wondering what might have been wrong with it that it would need to go off-line and how many actual PPCs does Amtrak have? From what I'm reading, it sounds like the PPC doesn't run a fair amount of the time on the CS.