Large Scale Central

AMTRAK

Picked this from a UK newspaper.

…Amtrak has announced that it is bringing back the classic glass-dome train to run on routes from Brunswick in Maine to Boston and from Montreal to New York from later this year.

You mean like this one, which is part of the Autotrain.

Pete Thornton said:

You mean like this one, which is part of the Autotrain.

Sure hope they have better track than the “Crescent” runs on. Man, I thought I was coming out of that top bunk.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cry.gif)

Pete Thornton said:

You mean like this one, which is part of the Autotrain.

Actually Pete that is a Sightseerer lounge which is a superliner and is part of the AutoTrain. I believe Ross was referring to the article here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-5967115/Amtrak-revives-classic-1950s-glass-domed-train.html

That dome car is ex GN and has mainly traveled the west coast with the Surfliner

The Boston and Maine is quite smooth IMHO…I’m sure it’s a great ride, but from what I hear the dome car seats are first come, first serve. When you get onboard half way between Portland and Boston I assume you find yourself in amfleet coach class.

That’ll be fun to see at North Station. Right now they’re just a string of coaches with a cabbage on one end and a P42 on the other.

Amtrak Vermonter video I took yesterday. Not a great quality, but I got super close to it! Wrong end of the state, but I thought I’d share anyway!

Thank you John and once again welcome to LSC!

Bruce Chandler said:

Pete Thornton said:

You mean like this one, which is part of the Autotrain.

Sure hope they have better track than the “Crescent” runs on. Man, I thought I was coming out of that top bunk.(https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cry.gif)

If the wife was on the bottom bunk then why post a frowning face?

Bob McCown said:

That’ll be fun to see at North Station. Right now they’re just a string of coaches with a cabbage on one end and a P42 on the other.

You just had to throw Cabbage into the conversation didn’t you!

" Rooster " said:

Bob McCown said:

That’ll be fun to see at North Station. Right now they’re just a string of coaches with a cabbage on one end and a P42 on the other.

You just had to throw Cabbage into the conversation didn’t you!

:slight_smile: