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>>1261163
Are they borrowing Amtrak passenger cars or what are they doing?
I can't think of any recent funeral trains around the world.
If The Queen dies in Scotland, there are plans to use a Deutsche Bahn Schenker locomotive and the Royal Train carriages to bring her back to London, though those are only plans.
Remind me: what was H W Bush's significance to rail transport, if any?
I doubt they would do the same for Joe Biden, considering all he really did was attend the opening of the ACS-64 services, and attend the thing where they showed off the "Avelia Liberty" as the replacement Accela Express.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Dec 2018 18:56:16 No.1261186 Report

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>>1261176
>Are they borrowing Amtrak passenger cars or what are they doing?
Absolutely not. All freight railroads have their own fleets of passenger cars they use for special events and executives. They're normally really fancy, but the UP takes it to another level.

https://www.up.com/cs/groups/public/@uprr/@newsinfo/documents/up_pdf_nativedocs/pdf_up_media_41_train_consist.pdf

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Anonymous Mon 03 Dec 2018 18:57:56 No.1261187 Report

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RIP in peace.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Dec 2018 19:35:28 No.1261189 Report

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>>1261186
>All freight railroads have their own fleets of passenger cars they use for special events and executives.
What's the point? I mean, if none of the Class I freight lines actually do scheduled revenue service, then surely these are just money sinks?
I know the Royal Train in the UK is considered a money sink as well, but the fact that it's cheaper to transport The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh together on the same train since it saves on both transport and security costs is a benefit.
Ultimately though, it makes no sence for something that never deals with passengers to have luxury passenger cars.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Dec 2018 20:11:50 No.1261205 Report

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>>1261189
>Why
Because these are multi-billion dollar profiting companies and private railcars to shuttle big whigs around in an oppulent display isn't actually that big of an expense when you already own the rail and engines.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Dec 2018 20:18:27 No.1261210 Report

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>>1261189
>What's the point?
You already have a railroad right of way, employees, and motive power, might as well use them to tour the system periodically. And people do turn out for steam specials even just to watch them come through town.

What you'll find on nearly every officer's special are politicians--state and national.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Dec 2018 20:24:54 No.1261212 Report

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>>1261210
Exactly. It's a very cheap, yet effective, public relations service. These companies have plenty of space to store them when not in use, the cars were bought 60 or 70 years ago so there's no big capital cost in retaining them, and they're not used very frequently so there isn't an appreciable amount spent maintaining them.

The biggest cost is really the opportunity cost of running it and sequencing revenue service.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Dec 2018 20:49:36 No.1261218 Report

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>>1261189
Snow

When the snow is bad and trains are stopped. They deadhead crews in passenger cars attached to manifest trains.

Though crew cars are Amtrak cars and nothing fancy.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 02:19:21 No.1261321 Report

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>>1261176
>Remind me: what was H W Bush's significance to rail transport, if any?
He used a train to campaign in 1992.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Dec 2018 08:58:03 No.1261406 Report

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>>1261133
>travelling to see a statist sham
yeah no

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Anonymous Thu 06 Dec 2018 18:27:49 No.1262098 Report

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ey2Cjh_Vws

A stream of the funeral right now.

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Anonymous Fri 07 Dec 2018 03:13:53 No.1262210 Report

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This passed just a few hundred feet from my apartment, but it looked like it was going to rain and I have a ton of shit to do so I didn't bother. Also, it was so cloudy that you could easily hear the jets flying over but couldn't see them at all.

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