Falcon is recovering from it's notorious reputation of having the worst maintenance in SCR thanks to it's new RSA. To pair it with East Coast, which has very bad maintenance, since it's SER doing PM , no surprise there, would be a terrible decision. Also, even if SCR takes over PM of East Coast, it is unlikely they will assign RSA to two long distance trains. SER can do some RSA on its end like with HWH SMVB SF or any night train by speeding up East Coast to make it arrive by 11:00 AM at HWH end. Return can depart early in the evening at around 15:00 PM or so.