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Passenger Trains > About Those Parlour Cars....,,,Date: 01/25/15 17:20 About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: walstib It's been nearly two weeks since the Pacific Parlour Cars came off the Starlight to be refurbished.
Has anyone seen any evidence of progress on refurbishing them? Work in LA? Deadheading to Beech Grove? Anybody? Anything? Posted from iPhone Date: 01/25/15 17:28 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: PHall Fly your drone over 8th Street and find out!
Date: 01/25/15 22:10 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: SFO They are ALL as the wheel pit ... four coupled together and one orphan by itself (the Willamette Valley ... could that be the one a poster mentioned in an earlier thread was being cannibalized to keep the others going?). Interestingly, ... there is not much left to identify as "Santa Fe" at Amtrak's 8th St Coach yard (the turntable is certainly a major exception), but the wheel pit is still a neat Santa Fe remnant. How many trips have these very cars made to this very facility over nearly 60 years?
1st pic ... all five. 2nd pic ... four. 3rd pic ... Willamette Valley    Date: 01/25/15 22:20 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: amsnoop They are supposed to return to service on March 5.
Date: 01/26/15 00:38 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: GP25 At the rate we are going. March 5th will be here very quick.
Jerry Martin Los Angeles, CA Central Coast Railroad Festival Date: 01/26/15 07:38 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: rswebber "Well folks, news from corporate - apparently we have a maintenance issue, and this equipment will be taken out of operation."
I can see it now - Feb 2, there will be an announcement indicating there is some fatal flaw that requires too much (expensive) work, and the cars will be scrapped (due to Amtrak's concept of an anti-compete clause). Date: 01/26/15 09:38 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: railstiesballast What a cheery bunch of optimists we are.
Date: 01/26/15 11:47 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: usa4624 Hard to get optimistic with Amtrak...
Date: 01/26/15 17:48 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: ProAmtrak rswebber Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > "Well folks, news from corporate - apparently we > have a maintenance issue, and this equipment will > be taken out of operation." > > I can see it now - Feb 2, there will be an > announcement indicating there is some fatal flaw > that requires too much (expensive) work, and the > cars will be scrapped (due to Amtrak's concept of > an anti-compete clause). Don't you ever have anything positive to say with Amtrak? Date: 01/26/15 19:59 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: DavidP GP25 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > At the rate we are going. March 5th will be here > very quick. At what rate are we going? 24 hours per rotation of the earth? Been that way as long as I can remember :-) Dave Date: 01/26/15 21:18 Re: About Those Parlour Cars....,,, Author: SFO Overland Trail keeping good company.
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