Mike S.
Service Attendant
Hey guys,
I suppose I should do a trip write up, but I've been busy. I took the LSL in a roomette from BUF to NY and back on the weekend of the 10th. I was very impressed with the viewliners.
The roomette compartment is nice, private and fairly modern. The interior of the car as a whole is very modern. The white lights and light plastic look much more updated than an Amfleet (and they should at 15 years newer!). The most impressive part was how much nicer they rode than the amfleet's over the same track. I've ridden the Empire Corridor several times now in Amfleets (about a 2 weeks prior to my first viewliner trip too) and I couldn't get over how much better the viewliners rode. When the Amfleets get above 80mph on the Empire Line they start to rattle and vibrate pretty bad. Not so with the viewliners. Now...the track may be worse on this line than say in the NE Corridor where Amfleets seem to ride fine there from my limited experience. The other convincing factor was how much more smoothly they took crossovers joints at track speed. The amfleets SLAM over them while the viewliners kind of thud and feel much more solid.
Agreee?
Mike S.
I suppose I should do a trip write up, but I've been busy. I took the LSL in a roomette from BUF to NY and back on the weekend of the 10th. I was very impressed with the viewliners.
The roomette compartment is nice, private and fairly modern. The interior of the car as a whole is very modern. The white lights and light plastic look much more updated than an Amfleet (and they should at 15 years newer!). The most impressive part was how much nicer they rode than the amfleet's over the same track. I've ridden the Empire Corridor several times now in Amfleets (about a 2 weeks prior to my first viewliner trip too) and I couldn't get over how much better the viewliners rode. When the Amfleets get above 80mph on the Empire Line they start to rattle and vibrate pretty bad. Not so with the viewliners. Now...the track may be worse on this line than say in the NE Corridor where Amfleets seem to ride fine there from my limited experience. The other convincing factor was how much more smoothly they took crossovers joints at track speed. The amfleets SLAM over them while the viewliners kind of thud and feel much more solid.
Agreee?
Mike S.