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You are correct! The eight car bi-level consist starting at 07:58 was indeed long. Happy holidays @blose774! 🎄❄️

@@jamesreillytrains Happy Holidays to you as well!🎄

@Baconbs718 : Good to know. NPCU in North America = Driving Van Trailers in the United Kingdom. 👍🏽

@@sebastianmunera5470 : We are in agreement. 👍🏽👍🏽

@blose774: You are correct. The Chargers entered service along the Surfline Q4 2018 and they seemed reliable initially… But the number of mechanical casualties throughout the Surfline’s SC-44 fleet has wreaked havoc of late. The DASH 8 locomotives seem a little underpowered for the Alstom bi-level consists on revenue services. It will be interesting to see if Siemens and Amtrak California can mitigate the mechanicals issues, or if they eventually have to lease some of the redundant GE P42DC Genesis locomotives to augment their ailing fleet.

@@WaynoGur: Thank you sir! 😃😃

@@metra1383 : You are correct. Our understanding is that it has been sold and will be comprehensively rebuilt for a different railroad.

@RailClipper: The interior of the California Comet cars are in excellent condition. The consensus is that they ride very differently than the salvaged California Superliner I and purpose-built California cars and Surfliners. More leg room, more comfortable seating, but less capacity (for busy trains) and slower egress at station stops. Definitely solid additions to the Surfline roster. Hopefully they can procure a few Amfleet or Horizon cafe cars to complete these consists.

First charger to ever retire (not including 1402)

@@SD40-2 yeah, 1402 was a Cascades locomotive, not a Surfliner unit.

@@HunterWilliams-le9bk ik

Dash 8 locomotives 510, 509, and 503 often substituted along the Surfline in September of 2024. 👍🏽👍🏽

Thank you sir! 👍🏽👍🏽

Nice! 😃

Good intel. We are in full concurrence. 👍🏽👍🏽

Good intel. We are in full concurrence. 👍🏽👍🏽

@@Basinrails : Definitely! 👍🏽 👍🏽

@@blose774 : Not sure what specifically happened to 90215, but it is evident Pacific Surfliner does not have cab car roster depth at the moment with 90215 undergoing maintenance (August 2024), 6906 sent back to Beech Grove (August 2024), 6953 (prognosis not yet disclosed) severely damaged (December 2023), and 6902 (beyond repair) structurally compromised (November 2001). These Alstom cab cars have proven to be popular, reliable, effective, and remarkably safe… But the loss of another cab car/NPCU coupled with a twenty four year old Alstom fleet starting to show its age (and mileage) has me wondering what Pacific Surfliner can do to mitigate in the interim. Do they plan to perform a midlife rebuild of the Alstom fleet at some point? The Sumitomo Corporation bi-levels failed to materialize… But some of California cars from the San Joaquins route are expected to eventually return to Pacific Surfliner at some point.

@@jamesreillytrains Since they have the extra weekend trains,they also require more additional equipment to run.

@@jamesreillytrainswould’ve been cool if they kept a couple f59phis and converted them to cabbage cars. Sad I’ll never get a chance to see a Surfliner f59phi

@@jamesreillytrains90215 has PTC and battery issues, so it’s currently awaiting to have those issues sorted out.

NPCU 90215 “Bakersfield” was undergoing unspecified maintenance this week, but hoping to see it return to San Diego in the not too distant future. It is interesting that the two NPCUs have been utilized with the Alstom bi-level Surfliners while the Com-Arrow single level rolling stock entered revenue service with a DASH 8 in lieu of an NPCU.

@@jamesreillytrains yeah. It's interesting they used a dash 8 instead of an npcu. However 90215, and I quote, "rides like a blender." The ptc issues are out of control, so they only used it for 1 day and then swapped it out.

@@erikthetrainmaster6112 : No business class seats are sold, and no cafe car. With that stated, all passengers throughout the train are offered complimentary business class Amtrak snack packs and bottled water when aboard the Comet 1B consist.

@@blose774 : Feel the same way. So glad to see single level rolling stock back on the Surfline!

@@jamesreillytrains I definately agree with that!👍

Jon: You rock! Thank you! 👍🏽👍🏽

@@jackchen7003 : We are in complete agreement! 👍🏽👍🏽

Unfortunately no. :(

@@johnledhalen2903 : Sorry for the delay responding, started school this week. Thank you sir! My Dad says hello.

@@jamesreillytrains It's cool I'll let you know when we get some foreign power in the yard.

@@ZaneTheRailfan : Hang in there Zane! 👍🏽🙂

@blose774: We are in agreement. Never thought we would see an F40 class NPCU in early Caltrain livery leading a bi-level Surfline consist. Best visiting NPCU we have had along the Surfline since Cascades 90230 led Horizons/Amfleets. 😃😃

@@jamesreillytrains I'm guessing their using it as protect power or maybe another cabcar broke down or something.

CSX has several iconic liveries that are functional yet distinctive. Wish that CSX locomotives visited San Diego more often. 👍🏽👍🏽

You have an awesome mom. Very kind of her. 👍🏽👍🏽

@@chessiesystem : Thank you! 😃😃

@@austin.700 - Thank you for the feedback! That daily job starts circa 2100 at the yard situated along Stuart Mesa, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton but is (currently) only dispatched to Escondido a few times a week with an ETA circa 0200. Be extra careful if out there at zero dark thirty because there has been a lot of youth gang violence and substance abuse incidents in the area at night.

@@blose774 : We agree! 👍🏽🫡