Q: I am the railroad photographer from Upstate NY who asked some questions a while ago, but a new one has arose. This past Saturday, the Amtrak Lake Shore Limited had 2 extra passenger cars on it. Not only that, the daily CSX Buffalo-Albany freight had 2 engines PLUS one in the middle of the train and that engine wasn't even owned by CSX but rather, Norfolk Southern. All this has to mean something, but what Bill?
A: what i am missing, is how much consistency the trains have otherwise. you always tell me about something that is different from the way it 'normally' is, but i feel like i am lacking a sense of how often it is the normal way. when you say there are '2 extra cars' on a train today, what i would really like to know is how many consecutive days before that did it have 2 fewer than today