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The Official Western Rails Superliner Cross-Country Cafe Car Conversion INformation Page

The Official Western Rails
Superliner Cross-Country Cafe Car Conversions Information Page

EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2009
NEW!! Information on Superliner Cross-Country Cafe Car Conversions
Amtrak is in the process of converting wreck-damaged, surplussed, or ortherwise-stored Superliner I Dining Cars into Cross-Country Cafe Cars that combine dining and lounge car services, similer to the Diner/Lounge/Bistro cars operated on San Joaquin and Capitol Corridor Trains and the Diner/Bistro Car sets used on Talgo trains in the Pacific Northwest. At this point, Amtrak has converted sixteen of these cars into combined Diner/Lounges at their service facilities in Beech Grove, Indiana, south of Indianapolis. When this project, which began in mid-fall 2006 is completed, there will be a total of 18 Cross Country Cafes. These conversions are being constructed as part of a governmental mandate to bring in more revenue on food service operations aboard long distance trains. In fairness to the City of New Orleans, Texas Eagle, and Sunset Limited, on which this type of car is both used and assigned, and referred to as a Cross-Country Cafe in the Amtrak Arrow Reservation system, chapter G/TVL/MNU/P2 Effective 12DEC07.
On this web page, the Menu Name "Cross Country Cafe" is used in place of the name Diner/Lounge. Car Numbers in Bold-Italic type indicate cars that have been upgraded to operate in push-pull corridors such as the San Joaquins and Amtrak Cascades. Information used to prepare this page is also derived from On-Track-On-Line by David C. Warner. - Used by Permission.

Cells higlighted in Yellow indicate car was upgraded to train-line status, with the multiple-unit run-through cabling, that permits the cars to be used in corridor service routes such as Amtrak Cascades Service or Pacific Surfliners.

The text in the cells that have car numbers that have been modified to operate in push-pull operation are in black. All other cars = in the=20 list are blue text on a white background.

Superliner Cross Country Cafe Food Service Cars Conversion History and Information
Cross-Country Cafe Number Former Dining Car Number Conversion Release Date
37000 38014 November 17, 2006
37001 38015 August 11, 2007
37002 38035 October 19, 2007
37003 38038
37004 38001
37005 38033 December 2, 2007
37006 38025 December 14, 2007
37007 38018 December 30, 2007
37008 38037 January 25, 2008
37009 38005 February 17, 2008
37010 38006 March 21, 2008
37011 38022 April 16, 2008
37012 38003 April 30, 2008
37013 38036 May 23, 2008
37016 38008 June 18, 2008
37014 38011 July 18, 2008
37015 38008 August 8, 2008
37017
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