Most of us have become aware of the very short 29/30 due to (a) lapsed inspections during covid; (b) lack of staff to reactivate the cars with lapsed certs. Basically these are one service car and 2-3 superliners.
It baffles me why the Cardinal and Capitol haven't been, out of necessity, rescheduled into a scheme similar to the Skeena where there is a overnight pause at Pitt for the foreseeable future. Then the need for a formal diner and baggage are eliminated, and you can have a string of 6-8 coach cars as a daytime train that actually has the ability to serve the market.
The same could be said for the City of NO. Right now this is an overnight train but Illinois Central ran it as a coach day train 6am-midnight.
It baffles me why the Cardinal and Capitol haven't been, out of necessity, rescheduled into a scheme similar to the Skeena where there is a overnight pause at Pitt for the foreseeable future. Then the need for a formal diner and baggage are eliminated, and you can have a string of 6-8 coach cars as a daytime train that actually has the ability to serve the market.
The same could be said for the City of NO. Right now this is an overnight train but Illinois Central ran it as a coach day train 6am-midnight.
The new Acela: It's not Aveliable.