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Bear in mind that on some older services the passenger cars would need to be next to the loco - otherwise they wouldn't be able to connect to the steam heating system (unless the freight cars were fitted with a through pipe for this, which some probably were?) More recently the only cars that can run between the loco and passenger cars on Amtrak services are Material Handling Cars - only these (and their baggage cars) are fitted with through-wiring for the Head End Power system that supplies the passenger cars. Just a couple of things that nobody's mentioned yet!
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