Passenger Trains > Amtrak Crescent 1994

Amtrak #20 at Manassas, Virginia in February, 1994.

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I missed this era. What a mixed (and dirty) and consist! Glad you caught it.

Cool video, I miss how Amtrak was back then!

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Love these old era trains... miss this paint scheme

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Isn't the Gulf Breeze mixed in with the Consist as well?
Or Did Amtrak run a seperate train back then?

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

Boy did Amtrak fall to pieces: 17 cars then, I believe 6 now. Where did all the people go?

MdRailfan Wrote:
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> Boy did Amtrak fall to pieces: 17 cars then, I
> believe 6 now. Where did all the people go?

Yield price management, purposely reduced consists, cheap gas, affordable airline fares, and a dearth of local advertising, to name a few

mp51w Wrote:
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> MdRailfan Wrote:
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> > Boy did Amtrak fall to pieces: 17 cars then, I
> > believe 6 now. Where did all the people go?
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> Yield price management, purposely reduced
> consists, cheap gas, affordable airline fares, and
> a dearth of local advertising, to name a few
Good reasons (or bad) I was being sarcastic.

GP25 Wrote:
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> Isn't the Gulf Breeze mixed in with the Consist as
> well?
> Or Did Amtrak run a seperate train back then?

Mixed in, Gulf Breeze was carded as Train #520.

MdRailfan Wrote:
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> Boy did Amtrak fall to pieces: 17 cars then, I
> believe 6 now. Where did all the people go?

The normal pre-covid consist was 8 or 9 cars. Take away the 2 MHC's, and the Gulf Breeze cars, and you have pretty much what Amtrak ran until March 2020...