Day of the month that the train left the originating city. In this case, aboard #58(7) means aboard the City of New Orleans that left New Orleans on the seventh of June.
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There is one exception to that rule, Mr. Dixie, and that relates to #1 the Westbound Sunset Limited.
Since the Sunset is "suspended" Orlando-New Orleans and has not been discontinued (I've always contended that an advocacy group could make a case that Amtrak discontinued a train without Notice under ARRA '97 so they'd better put it back on), the "phantom" train still originates in Orlando. Therefore the Sunset that left New Orleans on Monday June 14 had actually "left" Orlando Sun Jun 13. Therefore this particular train is still noted by Amtrak as #1(13).
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Now that I have completed Mr. McCommons' work, I hold to the view expressed earlier at the topic that "it don't tell US too much we don't already know' and, pleasantly, I found there to be far more "balance" than I would have expected. The balance is that Mr. McCommons recognizes that there is more to hosting a passenger train than simply the advocates position of "hey what's some iddy bitty passenger train?' or "that big profit hungry railroad OWES us.'
While I think it was 'dumb' that Union Pacific would not grant the author any "face time' and the other three simply trotted out their 'PR mouthpieces', they did provide some insight into the industry's thoughts on handling this "nuisance" with which predecessor managers 'stuck' the contemporary industry. I continue to hold the industry is Kubler-Ross Phase V regarding Amtrak; it's here to stay.
In a word: "it's worth it'.
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