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Description: In the world of passenger trains, fully matching rail equipment is quite eye catching. When the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner began operations in June of 2000 in Southern California, the equipment was almost always fully matched 5 car train sets of bi-level “Surfliner” cars pulled by a Surfliner painted F59PHI locomotive. Over the years, the service has become increasingly popular with ridership growing to about 4 million annual passengers in 2019. Because of this, all train sets have been lengthened to 6 and sometimes even 7 cars and more trains have been added to the schedule, requiring additional sets of equipment. In order to meet regular daily car requirements and fill the gap until additional Surfliner equipment can be sourced, Bilevel Amtrak “Superliner” cars have been added to most train sets. Some of these cars have even been painted into the Surfliner scheme, but most of them display standard Amtrak striping. These days, it is not that often that completely matched Surfliner sets can be seen, but it does happen from time to time. In this video, we’ll take a look at some matched Surfliner sets in service as well as some that have Superliner cars painted into the Surfliner blue scheme. CoasterFan2105 is the home of all sorts of train and railroad related video content. Stop by every Friday at 9 AM Pacific time for an all new railroading adventure and be sure to check out all of my social media pages @coasterfan2105 for even more great railroad content. Thanks, and I'll see you down the line!