Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
354 had a viewliner II baggage car on it tonight. Possibably more water for Flint or something. Looking for it back on 353 tomorrow midday.
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Re: Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
Why would a train that goes nowhere near Flint have a baggage car of water for Flint?
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Re: Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
Nope.....had a large group who went on a ski trip out west somewhere with lots of gearYpsi wrote:Possibably more water for Flint or something. Looking for it back on 353 tomorrow midday.
BerkshireKid, it already has happened....while the first car went directly to Flint on 364 (and got all the publicity), the second one came into PNT on 352 a while back and then was transloaded onto trucks for the rest of the trip....me thinks CN didn't want this to become a habit of tying up the main for an hour while the car was unloaded....they were complaining about 354 being in the station for 10 mins tonight in BTL as it was
Re: Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
Nice that this may be a new yearly thing for that group then (assuming it's the same group that did it around this time last year). Mixing up the consist 4 out of 2190 trips a year never hurts.
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Re: Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
Here's a video of the second "water train" (352) at Porter Junction, Indiana on March 25th, 2016.Buster Manning wrote:BerkshireKid, it already has happened....while the first car went directly to Flint on 364 (and got all the publicity), the second one came into PNT on 352 a while back and then was transloaded onto trucks for the rest of the trip....
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Re: Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
370/371 used to have a baggage car once or twice or a year when a school group took a ski trip out west. Haven't heard of that happening in a few years now though.
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Re: Amtrak baggage cars in Michigan
Here's a still from today. I would guess we will see it a couple more times when they return around the end of the week (unless this was the return)
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