Deggesty Splitting the long distance trains into several segments would also increase the number of cars and engines required--unless the frequency of operation was reduced to every second or third day.
Splitting the long distance trains into several segments would also increase the number of cars and engines required--unless the frequency of operation was reduced to every second or third day.
Maybe. It would depend on you chopped things up. Two examples. SW Chief. The middle chunk might only be a loco and a couple of coaches. So loco and cars saved there might help with the other two segs. The Crescent would likely be 5 or six coaches, and a lounge car and a single loco north of Atlanta and a single loco, two coaches and a lounge to the south.
Sleepers would be surplussed - could be converted to coaches like PRR did long ago...
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
oltmanndSleepers would be surplussed - could be converted to coaches like PRR did long ago...
Everything could be surplussed - could be converted to scrap like was done at the start of Amtrak long ago. [/sarcasm]
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Ovenight trains allow one to travel without taking any time to do so.
Done well and marketed well, t hey oould become popular agqin.
I can see myself using the Chief again on a transcontinental trip. Not with a bus bridge or stoppoers, however.
Agree 100% with Dave. It is a good buisiness model.
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