by MACTRAXX
Amtk30 wrote:After reading through this thread, I pulled out my copy of the March 1978 Guide - North American passenger travel edition United States, Canada, and Mexico. Purchased it at the NRPC offices then on 33rd Street, NYC. Cover highlights include: additional San Diegan, Champion resumes services, USA Rail Pass prices down, something about those turbos in NY, and LSL slated for refurbished "electric" cars(!). Not sure how much longer the Guide lasted for passenger listings through the Amtrak era.Amtk30: That LSL mention was about HEP which was to eventually replace steam heat on equipment.
Amtk30
The Lake Shore Limited was one of the first Amtrak trains using older rebuilt equipment on all assigned trainsets.
That was the beginning of the "Heritage Fleet" car rebuilding years on Amtrak - one of the best fleet improvements
in Amtrak's history.
Everyone:
With the mention of the Official Guide to the Railways I recall that the now-stored NRHS Library had an extensive
collection of Official Guides - one could easily reference when the split was made during the 70s when they were
made into two separate publications replacing the thick paperbound book which was printed similar to what phone
books were. As Noel Weaver mentions they are sometimes very interesting - and historical - reading material.
Since this topic is about Amtrak System or National Timetables that same stored NRHS Collection had a very large
selection of these Amtrak schedules - I believe that only one middle 80s edition was missing in what otherwise was
a literally complete collection. In recent years these timetables have been kept to add to this collection in the future.
MACTRAXX
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