{"id":37002,"date":"2023-08-26T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=37002"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T01:14:19","slug":"glory-to-the-old-metroliner-cabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/glory-to-the-old-metroliner-cabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory to the old Metroliner Cabs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In its day, the Budd-Metroliner was America’s answer to the Japanese Shinkansen. This fast electric train (MP85) was built for Pennsylvania Railroad and some briefly carried PRR-Keystone heralds before Penn-Central assumed operations of PRR’s lines in 1968. The Metroliner<\/em> service was introduced using the Metroliner cars in the early years of Penn Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1971, Amtrak assumed operation of the Metroliner <\/em>and continued to use the former PRR\/PC trains for fast services on the former PRR between New York and Washington D.C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Metroliner body style was the basis for the Budd-built Amfleet cars that were introduced in the mid-1970s, and which remain standard for many Amtrak trains today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amtrak later assigned locomotive hauled Amfleet consists to its Metroliner <\/em>services. In their waining years as self-propelled electric trains the former Metroliner train sets worked Amtrak Keystone<\/em> services to Harrisburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, some of the much modified old Metroliner cab cars survive on Amtrak’s five-car push-pull sets, many of which are assigned as standard consists to the New York-Philadelphia-Harrisburg Keystone<\/em> trains. Until 2014, these consists also routinely worked the Vermonter <\/em>when it was still routed via Palmer, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these views of Amtrak’s former Metroliner cab cars passing Gap, Pa., a couple of week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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