From what I have been told, Iowa Pacific's cars just looked old. Not classy old, but just old and kind of run-down. Even if they were super clean, they still didn't age well. One coach had fluorescent lighting which alone makes anything look dated. The individual tubes all had different color temperatures (some due to age, some due to just being a different color temperature). It looked terrible. If you're selling a premium product - you have to make it premium.
charlie hebdo From what I have been told, Iowa Pacific's cars just looked old. Not classy old, but just old and kind of run-down. Even if they were super clean, they still didn't age well. One coach had fluorescent lighting which alone makes anything look dated. The individual tubes all had different color temperatures (some due to age, some due to just being a different color temperature). It looked terrible. If you're selling a premium product - you have to make it premium.
Additionally, he still has the half completed Milwaukee Road Sleeper, Skytop which I hope he finds a good home for or someone with deep pockets that can finish the restoration. Hopefully he didn't put the ugly IC colors on that car.
I agree though his fleet was ratty in some respects and there is still a small pool of low mileage non-Amtrak cars to update in various parts of the country.
YES, Cotton Belt, and my mother,(retired teacher), would be disappointed TOO!
Railway labor and Amtrak legal fought hard against the the INDOT and Iowa Pacific replacing a Amtrak Union Crew with a non union Iowa Pacific Crew....a couple of horseheads and few months later the state of Indiana gave in after so much pressure
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