NARP is running an Action Campaign in the interest of daily Cardinal. The efforts continue all these years later. The stuff we were talking about 5 or 6 years ago still applies, although the new Viewliner equipment we expected to be running still is not. And Cardinals have been running with 2 sleepers at peak times, which may put more demand on the Viewliner sleeper fleet.
Well, yes. Politicians in "downstate" WV have bugged Amtrak for years concerning the tri-weekly Cardinal.
Collapse of CSX coal operations in Huntington, WV area has caused CSX to change their tune considerably concerning possible running of a daily Cardinal. A shame, but that's the way things seem to work these days.