by Gilbert B Norman
......be converted to "something else"?
I guess I would like to see "best outcome" of the entire V-II procurement fiasco, resulting in cars Amtrak will need over their remaining service life.
While the advocacy community is "up in arms" in that every V-II Diner that gets converted to an all-purpose Food & Beverage car, watching their "dreams" of traditional full-service dining being restored, there remain a good number of the seventy Baggage cars for which "best use" will be for axle counts.
So my open-ended question is what kind of car configuration - Sleeper, Food Service, or Coach, could the excess cars be reasonably and practically converted so as to generate revenue for Amtrak?
Enquiring mind is "curious".
I guess I would like to see "best outcome" of the entire V-II procurement fiasco, resulting in cars Amtrak will need over their remaining service life.
While the advocacy community is "up in arms" in that every V-II Diner that gets converted to an all-purpose Food & Beverage car, watching their "dreams" of traditional full-service dining being restored, there remain a good number of the seventy Baggage cars for which "best use" will be for axle counts.
So my open-ended question is what kind of car configuration - Sleeper, Food Service, or Coach, could the excess cars be reasonably and practically converted so as to generate revenue for Amtrak?
Enquiring mind is "curious".