Going Home For The Holidays. On Tuesday, December 214, 2024, Amtrak Train 853 operated a charter from Boston, Massachusetts to New York's Penn Station/Moynihan Train Hall in New York, New York. Notable on the consist, seen trailing o the six-car consist across the Hell Gate Bridge, is AMTK 9800, the "Metroliner Conference Car", which is seldom seen east of New York on the Northeast Corridor Line. The car was built as Penn Central 863 by Budd in 1967 as a snack bar Metroliner, and has since been rebuilt as a coach and repurposed in this configuration where it is frequently holding the markers on charters and other specials.
