Nostalgia & History > Amtrak Obscura: Furthest East for Superliners?

Here we are in Rensselaer,  NY in the mid 1980s. That's the Albany skyline in the background. 

It's a Family Days excursion for Amtrak employees, with a pull/pull set of F40s bracketing a Superliner consist, ping ponging back and forth on the otherwise idle Post Road connector. 

I'm not sure, but I think this may be the farthest east a Superliner consist ever got. 

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I saw a Superliner train on the Southern going from Atlanta to probably Alexandria Va in the spring of 1981.  It was pulled by a F40 and a P30CH.  The Southern always ran "School Boy Patrol Trains"  to Washington on weekend roundtrips for various school districts each spring.  This was an Amtrak version, and the only Amtrak version I ever saw, and the only P30CH I ever saw.  I had to clear my local freight up for them.  

It may have been October 10,1982. This was the Amtrak "Family Days" at the Albany-Renesslaer station. Tours of the shops, a large display of rail equipment, including a walk-through passenger train including  coaches, sleeper, and a D&H business car.
There were excursions with Superliner coaches on the (then) newly restored Post Road branch out to the junction with the Boston & Albany mainline (about 12 miles.) There was quite a line but  I managed to get on one of the trips. A great day.
John Atherton
 

The Superliner II cars were assembled in Barre, VT and delivered via the CV/NECR - Conrail/CSX interchange at Palmer, MA, about 100 miles east of Albany.  But as far as Amtrak operations go, you're probably right about Albany.  They have also pinch-hit for single level equipment on the Lake Shore a couple of times, with the train turning at Albany.

Dave