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| Railfan Pictures of the Week - 3/1/2020 |
| Amtrak Northeast Corridor North Philadelphia Station Philadelphia PA February 27 2020 |
| Just before the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Charter Train passes through, Amtrak Regional 125 crawls through the station on the local track (Track 4) with ACS-64 AMTK 608 leading nine Amfleets (eight coaches and a lone cafe car), a decent size train for midday. |
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| A few minutes later, the charter rolls by on Track 3 with ACS-64 AMTK 635 and AMTK 669 leading ... |
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| only eleven Amfleets: six coaches and five cafe cars. A far cry from previous years and almost indistguishable from a regular revenue run. The decline in ridership could be attributed to the report of alcohol-related and sexual harrassment incidents on those previous trips which resulted in protests and this year's ban on hard liquor on the train. |
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| As it passed, the westbound signal, which normally would go straight to red, instead showed lunar white. |
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| The reason was a slightly late Acela Express 2117 running on its heels. The express would run ahead of the charter south to Washington DC. |
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