Surfliner Switcharoo

[Jimmyp4]

Hello
I lived in San Diego for 10 years of my life. As I recall Surfliner ran Cab-car South and Engine North. However on my recent vist's the Surfliners are running Cab-car north and Engine south. I am 100% shure that all but ONE of the surfliner sets ran as I remember.

Am I just wrong about the direction or did they switch it around?

 

[Jimmyp4]

well, I went back and looked at my older train-watching pictures. I was right, so it seems that they DID change around the direction. Anybody know why or when they did that.

 

[Spawn_of_Chaos97]

Um. Engineers got tired of having the sun in their eyes in the cab cars? Who knows lol...

 

[Jimmyp4]

Well it was strange, we rode on Coaster and instead of them matching up in direction they where way out of sync. Now only one of the trains runs the old way.

 

[AJ_Fox]

I'm from California and they always ran cab south ever since I can remember.

Cheers

AJ

 

[Jimmyp4]

Well all 4 Surfliners I saw where running Cab-car north.

 

[AJ_Fox]

Clarification: When I said cab south I meant the Lok was on the south end with the cab car on the northbound.

Cheers

AJ

 

[mihalich]

Hi,

Yes they definitely did switch. I live in orange county. They switched about a year ago or two. I read something about it somewhere. Either there was another post about it on the forums, or I read it online somewhere.

Joe

 

[tbob]

Don't most cabs run south? They do on MN.

 

[Jimmyp4]

Ok after talking to a real Surfliner Engineer (I met while running at the San Diego Model railroad museum). Its due to the station tracks in LA, with the engine at the end of the platform it can preform switching on its own, however in the old position a switcher was required to add/remove cars. This came with a price though: Amtrak had to move the fueling pumps at the shops to the other end, move the terminal plugs to the other end of the platform, and move the drip pans in Santa Fe Depot.

 

[mikey186]

Hello
I lived in San Diego for 10 years of my life. As I recall Surfliner ran Cab-car South and Engine North. However on my recent vist's the Surfliners are running Cab-car north and Engine south. I am 100% shure that all but ONE of the surfliner sets ran as I remember.

Am I just wrong about the direction or did they switch it around?

Like San Deigo to LA & la to San Louis Obisbo?

 

[Jimmyp4]

I got my answer. Look above.