MI Train back in action

wyrickj · Unread post by **wyrickj** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 4:50 pm

Looks like GLC is finding another use for these great cars

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:05 pm

Glc has been using these cars for excursions for a number of years now

wyrickj · Unread post by **wyrickj** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:21 pm

This is a first I've seen for the fall color train and I've done it 3 years in a row

Ypsi · Unread post by **Ypsi** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:30 pm

wyrickj wrote:This is a first I've seen for the fall color train and I've done it 3 years in a row

That doesn't mean that they don't use them on other trains

Melon fest used them previously, I think the north pole express has used them, the 1225 excursion this summer used them

wyrickj · Unread post by **wyrickj** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:38 pm

I never said they were not in use for special occasions but I meant they have came back alive again since the controversy about them and the state stopped paying for them.

ConrailMan5 · Unread post by **ConrailMan5** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 8:19 pm

Waits for the purpose to become apparent ...

wyrickj · Unread post by **wyrickj** » Sat Oct 03, 2015 11:04 pm

I'm waiting as well

BerkshireKid · Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:59 pm

Ypsi wrote:Glc has been using these cars for excursions for a number of years now

When did GLC get into the excursion business!?!?

SRI leases the power along with these cars from GLC. Been happening for years and will continue.

MQT1223 · Unread post by **MQT1223** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:20 pm

From what I've heard regarding comments during the NPE 2014 and "Back to the Bricks" excursions these cars are not that comfortable to ride in. But then again I don't know what the people riding them were expecting.

wyrickj · Unread post by **wyrickj** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 7:18 pm

Metra cars are not that comfortable in the first place

iandt · Unread post by **iandt** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:32 pm

wyrickj wrote:Metra cars are not that comfortable in the first place

I'm not sure what you guys were expecting, but I found these cars very comfortable on one of the fall color excursions. They swayed a little, but otherwise I was comfortable throughout the trip. Or perhaps I was just simply too in awe of being on the second deck to notice

ConrailMan5 · Unread post by **ConrailMan5** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:51 pm

wyrickj wrote:Metra cars are not that comfortable in the first place

That is because they are not intended to be ridden in for long periods of time. I would not expect reclining seats of even plush on a commuter train...

wyrickj · Unread post by **wyrickj** » Sun Oct 04, 2015 10:26 pm

ConrailMan5 wrote:
wyrickj wrote:Metra cars are not that comfortable in the first place
That is because they are not intended to be ridden in for long periods of time. I would not expect reclining seats of even plush on a commuter train...

I did not ride in it for the color tour only used Metra to get to downtown from Schaumburg about an hour each way and not really all that bad and the MI Train seats look better if you ask me.

ConrailMan5 · Unread post by **ConrailMan5** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:27 am

wyrickj wrote:
ConrailMan5 wrote:
wyrickj wrote:Metra cars are not that comfortable in the first place
...
I did not ride in it for the color tour only used Metra to get to downtown from Schaumburg about an hour each way and not really all that bad and the MI Train seats look better if you ask me.

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GTW6401 · Unread post by **GTW6401** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:42 pm

Read in the Morning Sun today that Mt. Pleasant wants to start a commuter rail service. Could use the rail cars up there.

http://www.themorningsun.com/general-ne ... ttle-train

Tim · Unread post by **Tim** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:22 am

Interesting that the FRYX reporting mark is not in the 8/2015 Official Equipment Register. Piedmont & Western RR Club site lists two with this mark of which the tank car one is an old expired one;
FRYX *FRYE & CO. [FRYE TANK LINE]
FRYX +FEDERATED RAILWAYS, INC.

SD80MAC · Unread post by **SD80MAC** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:34 am

FRYX is Federated Railways, the owners of GLC.

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