Twilight Shoreliner

Twilight Shoreliner
A former Twilight Shoreliner Viewliner sleeper, still in revenue service.
Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Status	Discontinued
Locale	Northeast Corridor
Predecessor	Night Owl
Successor	Federal
Former operator(s)	Amtrak
Route
Start	Newport News, Virginia
End	Boston, Massachusetts
Train number(s)	66,67
On-board services
Class(es)	Coach class Custom class First class Viewliner sleeper car
Catering facilities	On-board café Twilight Cafe
Technical
Rolling stock	Viewliner sleepers Amfleet coaches
Gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)

The Twilight Shoreliner was a sleeper train operated by Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor. The Federal replaced the Twilight Shoreliner and eventually became just another regional train.

Equipment

Consist

The Twilight Shoreliner's consist initially was:

• Viewliner Sleeper
• Amfleet I Café (Twilight Café)
• Amfleet I Custom Class Coach
• Amfleet I Café
• Amfleet I Coach
• Amfleet I Coach
• Amfleet I Coach
• Heritage Fleet Baggage
• MHC Mail Car
• AEM-7 Engine BOS-WAS
• P42 Engine WAS-NPN

However, due to budget cutbacks in 2001, the train ended up losing certain services and was scaled down to look like:

• Viewliner Sleeper
• Amfleet I Café
• Amfleet I Coach
• Amfleet I Coach
• Amfleet I Coach
• AEM-7 Engine

The Twilight Sleeper

The Twilight Sleeper was the same design as other Viewliner sleepers, but contained Twilight Shoreliner soaps, curtains and special windows. The Twilight Shoreliner Sleeper was the only sleeper on the Northeast Corridor. Maintenance issues with the Viewliners led Amtrak to remove the sleepers from the Twilight Shoreliner and add them to other long distance trains.

The Twilight Cafe

The Twilight Cafe was for Custom class and Sleeping car passengers only. Meals were served by an attendant on Trays, the Twilight Cafe was more luxurious then the coach cafe.

Route

Massachusetts

• Boston-South Station
• Boston-Back Bay
• Route 128-Westwood

Rhode Island

• Providence
• Kingston
• Westerly

Connecticut

• Mystic
• New London
• Old Saybrook
• New Haven-Union
• Stamford

New York

• New York City-Penn

New Jersey

• Newark-Penn
• Metropark
• Trenton

Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia-30th Street

Delaware

• Wilmington

Maryland

• Aberdeen
• Baltimore-Penn
• New Carrolton

• Washington, DC-Union

Virginia

• Alexandria
• Woodbridge
• Quantico
• Fredricksburg
• Ashland
• Richmond
• Williamsburg
• Newport News

Connecting Motorcoach service to Virginia Beach

See also

• Federal Express (passenger train)

External links

• http://www.trainweb.com/routes/route_nd/twiguest.html