Do you remember the Dining Car number? I rode the westbound Lake Shore Limited about 4 days after you posted this video and the dining car #8530 appeared on the inside to have once been a buffet car. Too bad the dining car is no longer used on this train.
Thats good that they will bring the Dining car back. I've always wondered why they sometimes face 1 engine forward and 1 backwards. I've caught that about 5 or 6 times in the past few months. I figured you would know.
But for now because there is only 1 viewliner dining car (which is still being refurbished) that will mean that every other lakeshore limited will have a dining car and the other one will still have the "diner lite". If the refurbished viewliner even goes to the Lakeshore Limited. It could possibly go to the Cardinal and if it does than every single cardinal could use it because the cardinal is tri-weekly. BUT new viewliner sleepers,diners,baggage cars are being ordered so evry train will have 1
To answer your question why sometimes the engines are both facing forward and sometimes one is facing forward and one backward: It's just however the yard crew decides to put the train together. Whichever way the engines are facing when they come out of the yard is how they put them on the train. It doesn't effect the performance of the locomotives to have them facing forward or backward. They can go just as fast either way.
Oh and on the Amfleet 2s shown here I wonder which side is the front and which side is the back, the side with doors or the side with no doors. Like in this case the Amfleet 2 cafe/lounge and the coach after it have the sides with no doors facing each other. I like to think that those 2 Amfleets are facing back to back unless you know better. I also seen something similar to that when I rode the Maple Leaf in 2007.
@gp40mc Yes, but one advantage to having both engines face forward is that if the lead engine has to be removed from the train, the second engine can then take it without having to be wyed first.
@DVA5656 planes are awful they treat you like animals and those pat-downs are ridiculous trains, on the other hand, bring you home, rain or shine, all a plane can do is turn around or land in bad weather, which doesn't get you ANYWHERE
why do the viewliners look so odd? they do not look like the one i was in on the Cardinal
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You can't really be serious! Amtrak still treats us as human individuals. The airlines treat pets than than humans!
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mccainforlife 3 years ago
Do you remember the Dining Car number? I rode the westbound Lake Shore Limited about 4 days after you posted this video and the dining car #8530 appeared on the inside to have once been a buffet car. Too bad the dining car is no longer used on this train.
sasilv1129 4 years ago 2
I heard that they might bring the dining car back on this train using the one and only viewliner diner!
gp40mc 2 years ago
Thats good that they will bring the Dining car back. I've always wondered why they sometimes face 1 engine forward and 1 backwards. I've caught that about 5 or 6 times in the past few months. I figured you would know.
Trainlover4ever2006 2 years ago
But for now because there is only 1 viewliner dining car (which is still being refurbished) that will mean that every other lakeshore limited will have a dining car and the other one will still have the "diner lite". If the refurbished viewliner even goes to the Lakeshore Limited. It could possibly go to the Cardinal and if it does than every single cardinal could use it because the cardinal is tri-weekly. BUT new viewliner sleepers,diners,baggage cars are being ordered so evry train will have 1
gp40mc 2 years ago
To answer your question why sometimes the engines are both facing forward and sometimes one is facing forward and one backward: It's just however the yard crew decides to put the train together. Whichever way the engines are facing when they come out of the yard is how they put them on the train. It doesn't effect the performance of the locomotives to have them facing forward or backward. They can go just as fast either way.
gp40mc 2 years ago
Oh and on the Amfleet 2s shown here I wonder which side is the front and which side is the back, the side with doors or the side with no doors. Like in this case the Amfleet 2 cafe/lounge and the coach after it have the sides with no doors facing each other. I like to think that those 2 Amfleets are facing back to back unless you know better. I also seen something similar to that when I rode the Maple Leaf in 2007.
Trainlover4ever2006 2 years ago
@gp40mc Yes, but one advantage to having both engines face forward is that if the lead engine has to be removed from the train, the second engine can then take it without having to be wyed first.
decline2state 8 months ago
That's the only way to fly!!!
msjeuph 4 years ago 4
@msjeuph planes are better
DVA5656 1 year ago
@DVA5656 planes are awful they treat you like animals and those pat-downs are ridiculous trains, on the other hand, bring you home, rain or shine, all a plane can do is turn around or land in bad weather, which doesn't get you ANYWHERE
trinityct 1 year ago
@DVA5656 All I will say is on a plane you pay in upwards of 2 and $300 for a seat which is very small in a very cramped cabin.
On a train you pay half that price and you have a cabin to your self with elbow room and a bed, and shower along with Dining car reservations.
I feel much more comfortable running along the Hudson at 90MPH rather than at 36000 feet at 393mph
Amtrak1194 1 year ago