Will Amfleet IIs be added to regionls with the addition of new Viewliners?

[zkr123]

Amfleet II coaches as first/business class and Amfleet II café cars as Bistro cars on the day services like Palmetto or Carloinian?

[D.Carleton]

No.

[oltmannd]

...because the Viewliners are mostly baggage cars and a handful of sleepers.  The Amfleet II coaches continue on in their existing service.

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D.Carleton

No.

 

The reasons are simple.  Even though Amfleet-2s are younger they have any where from 50% to twice as much mileage as -1s because they are on the LD trains.  Even so there are not enough -2s to always cover all the LD trains so -1s are used at times on some LD trains.

This is all covered in the fleet strategy plan and budget plan for 2014 in Amtrak reports and documents.

Only a suspicion but if any Viewliner-2 coaches are ever built the excess Amfleet 2s may go to back up NEC trains as the V-2 coaches would probably go on LD trains.   As a business class car ?  no too many miles. .

 

[oltmannd]

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D.Carleton

No.

 

 

 

 

The reasons are simple.  Even though Amfleet-2s are younger they have any where from 50% to twice as much mileage as -1s because they are on the LD trains.  Even so there are not enough -2s to always cover all the LD trains so -1s are used at times on some LD trains.

This is all covered in the fleet strategy plan and budget plan for 2014 in Amtrak reports and documents.

Only a suspicion but if any Viewliner-2 coaches are ever built the excess Amfleet 2s may go to back up NEC trains as the V-2 coaches would probably go on LD trains.   As a business class car ?  no too many miles. .

 

 

Mileage is only meaningful to the running gear - which is easy to rebuild back to spec.