Passenger Trains > A Clean Silver Star ???

Just the run of the mill Silver Star - Amtrak 92 is seen crossing Yadkin Road on north-side of Southern Pine NC on it's trek to Raleigh and points north, at 0850 on 3/30/23, about an hour and forty five off advertised.  Do  my eyes deceive me, or is this a somewhat clean looking train set?  Yes, power needs a bath, but the cars look a lot cleaner than most of the train sets on the Star.  

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Did it rain overnight in the Carolinas?

Don't want to jink it but my wife rode 91 two days ago from Southern Pines to Tampa and said the exterior was clean as were the windows. She got a new Viewliner roomette and said everything worked well. Her only complaint was rough track. Can't have everything. Ross Rowland 

Rough track ruins the entire rail experience for me.

Rough track would render even the famed 20th Century Ltd., or the all-Pullman Super Chief, not worth riding. - 

However, can't blame Amtrak in this case.

Between Cary, NC and Norway, SC the Silver Star runs on a lot of FRA Class III track. C'est la vie. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/30/23 15:13 by ctillnc.

ctillnc Wrote:
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> Between Cary, NC and Norway, SC the Silver Star
> runs on a lot of FRA Class III track. C'est la
> vie. 

A lot of that is jointed rail, especially south of Hamlet.  At least it was in 2019.  Not much traffic on it.

Functioning  car  washer  in Florida? Correct?

cutboy1958 Wrote:
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> Functioning  car  washer  in Florida? Correct?

Not as of about a month ago. I saw the train at Fort Lauderdale station in both directions several times between Thanksgiving and about a month ago, and every time it was disgustingly filthy on the outside, excepting for maybe a car or two that apparently had recently come from a maintenance facility and been properly cleaned. Sometimes the coaches were so dirty you couldn’t even see inside the windows after dark during the stop. Some of the filthiest Amtrak trains I’ve ever laid eyes on. I certainly hope they have started washing it at one end or the other.

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scraphauler Wrote:
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> Just the run of the mill Silver Star - Amtrak 92
> is seen crossing Yadkin Road on north-side of
> Southern Pine NC on it's trek to Raleigh and
> points north, at 0850 on 3/30/23, about an hour
> and forty five off advertised.  Do  my eyes
> deceive me, or is this a somewhat clean looking
> train set?  Yes, power needs a bath, but the cars
> look a lot cleaner than most of the train sets on
> the Star.  

Yes, the train in that video looks properly cleaned, which I never witnessed all winter the numerous times I saw the train at Fort Lauderdale. Certainly makes a big difference in the image plus people actually can see out the windows.

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Jimbo Wrote:
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> ctillnc Wrote:
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> > Between Cary, NC and Norway, SC the Silver Star
> > runs on a lot of FRA Class III track. C'est la
> > vie. 
>
> A lot of that is jointed rail, especially south
> of Hamlet.  At least it was in 2019.  Not much
> traffic on it.

Correct - still miles of stick rail between Hamlet and Cayce SC. And that portion of the line normally only sees Amtrak each way, L645 northbound and L647 southbound.