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[QUOTE]Originally posted by rresor: [QB] All this talk about various West VA trains sure brings back memories. I rode the Shenandoah, the Cardinal, and the Hilltopper several times during the 1970s. Herewith a summary: The Cardinal of 1974 or so carried a dome, at least one sleeper, a lounge, and a full diner out of Chicago. The train split at Charlottesville, with dome and lounge and some coaches going to NPN and the rest of the train to Washington. When the "Mountaineer" was added, it also had a diner and a dome. The combined train out of Chicago looked pretty impressive. The split was made at the C&O yard in Russell, KY, which was not a passenger stop, at about 11 at night. The Mountaineer then ran via N&W to Norfolk. Amtrak built a new station at Cattletsburg, KY, outside Ashland, and then turned the Mountaineer into a day train running, as Mr. Norman has noted, via Richmond and Petersburg, thence over a restored connection to the N&W and west to Catlettsburg. I rode it once, from Lynchburg to Washington. The Shenandoah was an overnight WAS - CIN train via the former B&O. Because service standards estabished by the ICC's Rail Services Planning Office required that there be sleeping accommodations, Amtrak built two "Ampad" rooms at the end of each of two Amcoaches (only two, not four). They looked just like the Superliner economy rooms, in retrospect (I traveled in one in 1979). The train was two cars: the Amfleet with the Ampads, and an Amcafe. Later, Amtrak did replace the Ampads with a 10-6 HEP sleeper during the last few months of the train's operation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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