By james art 
Chicago-starting with their departure south on Monday, March 3rd, Chicago-san Antonio Texas eagle Will win the Superliner Seageseer Lounge-Café staff. The first trip to the east is scheduled for March 5, after the equipment has become Texas City.
The train will keep its dinner, which will continue to provide “flexible” self -contained customers of sleep cars.
Trains News Wire has confirmed the long -awaited debut date and a timeline to improve the capacity for other trains during Memory Day with Harris Cohen, the Ambrace Office, and takes place in a planning director.
“Development routes service continues to investigate additional improvements in food service in other trains that have a flexible dining room,” Cohen says. They currently include Cardinal, Lake Shore Limited, New Orleans, and Crescent.
Thehe Eagle It has always been appointed a sightseeing salon until October 2020, when the AMtrak management is aside and restricted the maintenance of equipment, as most long-distance trains moved into three-ventricular work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Capacity has been restored throughout the system as the company continues to work by lagging behind major repairs. Texas eagle The revenue and the rider received a significant impetus last September, when Chicago-Los Angeles coach and sleeping coach were added to be replaced by regular cars in Chicago-san Antonio [see “Amtrak adds to Texas Eagle capacity …,” News Wire, July 29, 2024]S
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The company has traditionally expanded, consists of many routes during peak spring, summer and festive periods, but the delay in returning the equipment to active service has led to sales throughout the year on many routes [see “Amtrak still falling short …,” News Wire, Sept. 1, 2024]even [see “Amtrak notches ridership and revenue record ….,” News Wire, Nov. 25, 2024]S The availability of additional equipment and staff promises to partially correct this situation.
Adding a car every day to each train overnight is made up, requires:
– two to be always available for Car and Cardinal;
– Three for Lake Shore, Sunset Limited, and New Orleans;
– Four for Texas eagle, coast star light, crescent, and Silver meteor;
– Five for Southwestern chief, Empire builder, and Floridian;
– six for California Zefir.
The additional readiness equipment must also be located on the main terminals.
Here is the planned consists of extensions with their indicative dates of implementation:
Southwestern Chief: From March 3, full luggage, second Superliner Sleepr and third coach are added from Chicago. The lack of capacity until the coach was added by the end of last summer, it meant that the train missed to carry scouts to a film’s ranch near Raton, NM “We hope to take some of that rider this year,” Cohen says.
Cardinal: AMFLEET II third coach was added on March 5 from New York and March 6 by Chicago
Floridian: A third sleeping Viewliner will debut on April 7 from Miami, April 9 from Chicago.
California Zephyr: Since the beginning of May 19 from Chicago, Zest He finally received a third coach, and on June 9, a third Superliner Sleeper (from Car pool). This will allow the popular train to capture a higher demand for sleeping cars and to ease the sales of coaches that happen from Chicago, west of Denver, and between the area of San Francisco and Renault, Nev.
Empire Builder: Seattle’s second coach will be added on April 14 by Chicago in one month. It’s Winter Park Express equipment; The last start of this season is at the end of March. However, cars move back to California Zephyr (See above) and Coast Starlight (See below). With the exception of the winter months, this train always operates with two Seattle and two Portland, Wound, sections coaches and for several years ending in 2020. Builder He will probably also have high tariffs. Chicago-Sv. Paul Borealis It offers an alternative in the eastern part of the route.
Coast Starlight: A third coach will be added by Los Angeles on May 19. Equipment manipulations show how the available rolling stock has been moved to fit the expected search.
Crescent: The train in New York-Niu Orleans only works with one Viewliner sleeping car and one Viewliner II bedroom (with about four revenue rooms that are sold). The second recovery of the sleeping man is directed in mid -May, but Cohen tells News Wire: “The date depends to a large extent on the presence of parts, which is a challenge for these cars. From where I sit, I have the permission – as long as it is positively implemented based on the formulas we use – to deploy a car. But we do not always have equipment based on the number of external services. I would like to unfold even more than what I described today. “
In addition, all Superliner trains equipped with a transitional bedroom. This means that the service staff no longer take up a place for revenue. Four to eight rooms are always available for sale in these cars. On the other hand, there is no progress in moving 14 super-bodies appointed to Chicago-Carbondale, Ill., Daily Saluki and Illine Round trips to trains overnight as the locomotive antennas designed to guarantee a signal of traces of a chain that deviates along this route have not been funded or purchased.
Cohen says the inventory of the coach and the sleeping car is charged for the whole summer, so that the passengers are more likely to get the best price and space through reservation dates after expanding the capacity.