Re: Iowa Pacific passenger car fleet
Author: Goatboat
Date: 02-01-2017 - 14:51
Nice idea, but it has been tried before. Back in the early 1990s, Princess Cruises ran ex-MILW domes between LAX and Oakland on the back of the Starlight. It crashed and burned.
- gb -
wsab Wrote:
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> It would be nice if one of the cruise ship
> companies that runs cars on the Alaska railroad
> during the summer or the Canadian company that
> runs its own trains out of Vancouver could get all
> the IP big domes and maybe some other surplus IP
> cars to run a daily summer time premium service on
> the Coast Starlight between Oakland and LA and/or
> the Zephyr between Emeryville and Reno. They might
> run it tri-weekly in the off season.