Passenger Trains > Solution to Amtrak LD breakdowns/delays?

Amtrak 449 running through MP57 in Charlton, MA this afternoon - with 4 units - will this minimize delays due to breakdowns...LOL...?
And yes, it's snowing, again. Our 10th weekend "snow event" in a row.

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Looks like 104 has cut over its right eye?  Robert

That is a waste of money and fuel if they went that route,  what happened with just making sure all units are 100% ready to go before leaving the yards!

That's a really nice picture.  I'm sure the last three inches of snow in a winter with a hundred and ten inches doesn't look as nice to a local, though.

It's possible the power is being forwarded west for service in Chicago, or may have been picked up at Springfield for delivery to Albany. There are often a number of units assigned to New Haven which would need service occasionally.

   Rather impossible to tell from a photo if all units are on line and wasting fuel and money or not. I looked real close and could also NOT tell if someone made a wise choice and ferried power to a service facility or it had been picked up on line somewhere for other uses.    : )

Looks like the cafe is back?  I thought it was off until April.

Picture is worth a thousands words - looks Loire the lounge car an extra Boston coach is back. 

So the lounge car from NYP (and the Silver Star) must no longer runs through.

jp1822 Wrote:
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> Picture is worth a thousands words - looks Loire
> the lounge car an extra Boston coach is back. 

Ah, the Loire: the longest river in France.

sums007 Wrote:
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> jp1822 Wrote:
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> > Picture is worth a thousands words - looks
> Loire
> > the lounge car an extra Boston coach is back. 
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> Ah, the Loire: the longest river in France.

And a ride from Paris to Nantes on the TGV-Atlantique follows the Loire for much of the line west of Le Mans:  247 miles in 130 minutes. 

I suspect jp1822's auto-correct did its thing!

timecruncher