Southwest Chief with Amfleets?

[Supermicha]

On Railpictures.net i just saw an image of Amtraks South West Chief with a lot of Superliners and 5 Amfleets in the consist. Is it normal that Amfleet cars are used on long distance trains like the chief or was this just a special run in august 2004?

thanks,

[Anonymous]

Amtrak might have been transfering cars, I've seen it happen in the past.

[mudchicken]

You probably saw part of the consist for Kerry's train going back east where the cars belong or a coast shuttle back to Beech Grove (Indy.)....#3 and #4 normally do not have Amfleets in the consist.

[espeefoamer]

Two or three times in the past few months Amtrak has run one amfleet car between the baggage car and the transition crew dorm.When this car is on #4
it has been the Albuquerque coach.I'm sure passengers are less than thrilled when this happens[:(!].

[jabrown1971]

It was part of the Kerry Special. Locomotive is pulling the train. If you look closely at the railpictures.net photo, between the amfleets and superliners is private c ar 300, looks like it is still pointed west.