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, SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
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.
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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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