Reading through my old copies of Trains ... on page 11 of the October '92 issue, there is a pic of Amtrak's Fast Mail, #13 that runs between Boston and New York. By that time it no longer carried passengers, tho the caption mentioned that deadhead equipment was sometimes included. Does this train (or similar) still run?
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MP57313 wrote: Reading through my old copies of Trains ... on page 11 of the October '92 issue, there is a pic of Amtrak's Fast Mail, #13 that runs between Boston and New York. By that time it no longer carried passengers, tho the caption mentioned that deadhead equipment was sometimes included. Does this train (or similar) still run?MP
First, as supersticious as railroaders are, I'm surprised there was ever a train numbered 13. Odd numbered Amtrak trains are usually southbound or westbound, when the same train heads back, it gets an even number.
New York to Boston is part of the Northeast Corridor, and sees a lot of trains in a day's time. I doubt they run a dedicated mail train. If they still have the business, they'd probably put it on one of the regular trains.
I don't know about #13 south. The dispatcher simulators that I have for the NEC all list the northbound Fast Mail as #12. It comes out of Washington DC at @3am daily stopping only at major cities to drop off and pickup mail.
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Are there still mail trains?
I thought they weren't in service anymore...
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