Passenger Trains > Amtrak 5 w/ inspection car on rear

Spotted it here in Omaha along with 2 extra superliners headed west.

Tom Loftus
Omaha, NE

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Somebody important in WAS is headed west. 

Hopee  the  brass  walk  the   coaches!!

cutboy1958 Wrote:
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> Hopee  the  brass  walk  the   coaches!!

Might be tough to do unless the Superliner ahead is a transition car.  Then again, if it isn't, it's an effective way to keep the riff raff out.

Looks to be a transition sleeper on the rear. 

That car is clean.  I bet the rest of the train is filthy.

It was.

Tom Loftus
Omaha, NE

I am on #6. We just met #5 with the extra car just west of Glenwood Springs.

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jcaestecker Wrote:
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> Might be tough to do unless the Superliner ahead
> is a transition car.  Then again, if it isn't,
> it's an effective way to keep the riff raff out.

If you look at picture number 2 there is a high vestibule on the Superliner. 

just a rib

SantaFeCF7 Wrote:
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> jcaestecker Wrote:
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> > Might be tough to do unless the Superliner
> ahead
> > is a transition car.  Then again, if it isn't,
> > it's an effective way to keep the riff raff
> out.
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> If you look at picture number 2 there is a high
> vestibule on the Superliner. 

There's a small solo window at the end of the Superliner - not sure how to describe - but that is something that is only on the Superliner Trans-Dorm Sleeper. So pretty sure it's a Superliner Trans-Dorm Sleeper on the end. They typically align that way when Amtrak corporate is on the back. But extra cars? Besides the Viewliner on the rear (American View corporate car), what the Zephyr has extra cars in addition to it? Maybe I didn't hear that right? 

I'd love to see the interior of American View. The back portion is the "theater" seating section but I keep getting mixed comments about the bedrooms and some roomettes still being in place, but yet there also may be a dining area and small kitchen. Early on their rumors that American View was to replace corporate car Beech Grove and Beech Grove was going to the scrapper. But that seems to have not happened. 

Conference tables, kitchenette, booths and a theatre section.

HexOmega2319 Wrote:
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> Conference tables, kitchenette, booths and a
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Easier to attach the corporate Heritage sleeper or a regular Viewliner sleeper to the consist than trying to squeeze out bedroom space in American View's design I would suppose. I had thought they retained at least two sleeping "spaces" in American View, but in the rennovation process, easier to tear out and tear down and rebuild than trying to utilize anything that had been in the Viewliner prototype!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/28/24 03:51 by jp1822.