Passenger Trains > Number 27 In The Snow

A fresh dusting of snow greeted Amtrak 27 at Ritzville this morning.

The Portland-bound train was running about 2:41 off the advertised.

This is the first time number 27 has been late enough to come through town in daylight in quite a while.

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Very NICE! Was nice to wake up to a dusting of snow.

Larry

The snow surprised me.

I was going to head out and shoot the train somewhere, but I wanted to watch the Carter funeral. So I snapped a screen shot from the rail cam instead.

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Two coaches to Portland but only one to Seattle??

CP8888 Wrote:
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> Two coaches to Portland but only one to Seattle??

Yup! It's been that way for a while now.

Before COVID, the Seattle section always had two coaches and two sleepers. That's varied post-COVID, from one sleeper and one coach only, to two sleepers and two coaches, and then back to two sleepers and one coach. The Seattle section DEFINITELY needs a second coach. The Portland section post-COVID has often lost one if its Superliner coaches........Empire Builder used to be the strongest performer in passengers and revenue till Amtrak started playing around with the capacity constraints of passenger cars!!!!

jp1822 Wrote:
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> CP8888 Wrote:
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> > Two coaches to Portland but only one to
> Seattle??
>
> Yup! It's been that way for a while now.
>
> Before COVID, the Seattle section always had two
> coaches and two sleepers. That's varied
> post-COVID, from one sleeper and one coach only,
> to two sleepers and two coaches, and then back to
> two sleepers and one coach. The Seattle section
> DEFINITELY needs a second coach. The Portland
> section post-COVID has often lost one if its
> Superliner coaches........Empire Builder used to
> be the strongest performer in passengers and
> revenue till Amtrak started playing around with
> the capacity constraints of passenger cars!!!!


Blame tjat on the cuurrent Ammanagement!

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