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Amtrak's Fast Mail - Boston-New York - still in service?

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Amtrak's Fast Mail - Boston-New York - still in service?
Posted by MP57313 on Sunday, August 19, 2007 2:39 AM

Confused [%-)] 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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Posted by TomDiehl on Sunday, August 19, 2007 9:30 PM
 MP57313 wrote:

Confused [%-)] 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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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.

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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, August 24, 2007 7:15 PM
When Amtrak was running trains to Atlantic City,they had a train #666Shock [:O].As gamblers are notoriously superstisious,this really surprised me!
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Posted by MP57313 on Monday, September 3, 2007 4:29 PM
To extend the question...In the October 2002 issue of RailPace (P. 10) there is a pic of #13, the Fast Mail, but the caption says it does a daily run from SpringfieldMA-WashingtonDC.  The date of the pic is May 16, 2002.  There appears to be an Amfleet coach on the rear of the train. But,,,no listing of such train in the Amtrak public timetable from Spring/Summer '07... 
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Posted by Chris30 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 11:05 AM

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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Posted by traintownofcowee on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 12:06 PM

Are there still mail trains?

I thought they weren't in service anymore...

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