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Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly |
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Posted by R30A on Fri May 22 08:13:00 2015, in response to Re: Major Amtrak derailment in Philly, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri May 22 02:19:31 2015. But that sit down meal you had was likely on a Horizon or Amfleet II dinette/lounge. They are regularly used for such on the Lake Shore Boston segment, Cardinal, and in a pinch elsewhere should there not be enough Heritage Diners available.Neither Boston nor Albany has a commissary for dining cars. I believe the expenses associated with such were a big part of why the Silver Meteor was not extended to Boston from NYP in the late 1990s. I'll work out the numbers for earlier years later, but the spare factor of the Heritage dining fleet has not been such which would allow 2 additional Heritage dining cars to shuttle between Albany and Boston at any time in the last decade. In fact, it was low enough that the Lake Shore had to settle with two Lounge cars for a few years around 2008 where one of the two acted as Dining car. I honestly don't know what specific iteration of dining service you are recalling to, but if it was after 1980, the actual car it was provided in was a lounge of some kind. |
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