Posted by Greg Primrose on February 4, 2011  Hard to believe it went from this to 10 car trains packed to standing room only. Amtrak's future would be a bright sunny day now. Posted by Ellis Simon on February 4, 2011  In NY Central's heyday this train ran 16 cars with a twin-unit diner and parlor-observation car on the rear. Posted by Rich Brown on February 4, 2011  This is also very much the way the "New England States" looked in its last years running Boston - Albany. It would often leave South Station with but a single snack-bar coach. Posted by Bernie Feltman on February 5, 2011  Excellent, George Posted by Donald Haskel on March 2, 2011  Minimalized and marginalized with one coach and one motor. A short train with one Penn Central day left cries out "save me.” This was no way to run a railroad and in Chicago no less. Penn Central really knew how to get the train gods angry. Posted by on January 29, 2012  Is that the Empire Builder or North Coast Limited being wyed in the background? Posted by George W. Hamlin on January 29, 2012  Yes, that's the combined Builder/North Coast being wyed.

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