HAS ANYONE RODE A CHARTERED WEBB RAIL PRIVATE NORTHERN PACIFIC DOME CAR BEHIND AN AMTRAK TRAIN?

I can't offer any answers but I just saw a pair of NP's going through the mid-west behind a Amtrak on Virtual Railfan. Very sharp looking cars.

Have you checked Webbrails' website? There's contact information. For the answers to such detailed questions, call them.

@breezinup posted:

Have you checked Webbrails' website? There's contact information. For the answers to such detailed questions, call them.

Thanks for the reply.  I did send an Email to Webb Rail and I was hoping I could get some feedback here while I was waiting for a reply. 

You wont get it into Penn Station. Even when Amtrak had their dome doing the Leaf Peeping Specials, the car was added in Albany. The tunnels and the Catenary wont allow it.

You're going to have to pay for the use of the car and all of the switching charges and what not to use it. Amtrak wont drop the car in route, it will have to go terminal to terminal. If you wanted to use it friday and sunday, you're still going to have to pay for the use of it on saturday, pay to have it switched off the train and stored in a yard, put back on and so forth.

It costs a fortune. My club did a few trips in a private car some years back, we did it as a round trip in a day, it was 6 or 8 grand AND we had a guy who was in the club that owned the car, which got us a "deal".