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Yeah, Don. Course, GN and NP served Spokane late at night too.... poor suckers up there in the Inland Empire, no wonder they never got any more powerful than they did. I mean, second fiddle, and to Portland!!! <g> Only thing is, there are a lot of sleepers still on the system, AND those Superliner cars aren't perfect for what you propose- they'd work but not well. What the heck are we gonna do with them all? There's a lot of capital cash locked up in them, but without a market to sell them to they're useless to tap for new equipment capital. It's not like a car you can take to the dealer and trade in. Course, there is the option of rehauling them. CalTrans uses similar cars for it's surfliners & such.... maybe the sleepers could be refitted to lounge-coaches. And the diners could convert to Bistro/Cafe cars with a smaller staff and scaled back menus. A little re-upholstery, new carpets and lights, maybe some electrical and phone jack plugs for internet access... make it really convenient. Oh- you said deploy a train Atlanta-Miami. Are the clearances high enough for Superliners on that route? As for poor Salt Lake... I think they're gonna get the short end of the stick on this one- they're just one the way to no where slow. MAYBE they could work into an extended Idaho system, but that's a big maybe.
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