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Henry Kisor
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Amtrak Status is reporting service disruptions for both No. 3 and No. 5 departing Chicago today. Anyone know if they ever got out of Union Station?
Unconfirmed report is that #4(6) will not go east of ABQ and #6(6) will not go east of DEN. Speculation is that today's #3 and #5 have been cancelled.Actually, 3 may not have left the station. There was apparently speculation among the crew on 4 tonight that they may get turned at KCY.
"Weeeeell," as Jack Benny would have said.The Surfliners are running on time
This shows how fragile and skeletal Amtrak's network really is. They have managed to provide the most basic of nationwide services for years, but -- as we have seen -- it doesn't take much for it to fall apart.Amtrak has gotten themselves into this position by making Chicago the only connecting point for Western trains.
Ironically, Anderson and I have been talking about exactly this fragility. We feel that rail advocates need to be pushing for alternative services that would relieve bottlenecks in places like Chicago and the High Line. Restoring the Pioneer, the North Coast Hiawatha, the Sunset East, and east-west services through STL and/or KCY are keys to a more robust network.For connecting service from the east to the west, it certainly doesn't help that this is during the annual cancellations of Crescent service to New Orleans, meaning that Chicago is *really* the only way to get from West to East.
The network is actually severed right now, with no way to get from the West to the East on Tuesday. Capitol Limited, Lake Shore Limited, Cardinal, and Crescent are all cancelled!
Usual Winter Track Work between ATL and NOL!!! North of Atlanta in the NC Mountains its Darn Cold also!!!Why the heck is the Crescent cancelled? They should at least run it from NOL to WAS, but I'm not aware of anything as severe along that route as what they are experiencing along the LSL, SWC, CZ, IZ, TE, and the NEC.
Yeah.I think it was the fall of St. Louis by Amday that made EVERYTHING go through Chicago.
Minus 8F at 8AM today here in the mountains of western NC, about an hour northwest of Asheville, about 2 hours from the Crescent's stations in Toccoa, GA, and Greenville, SC. Darn cold, indeed! Record-breaking for around here.Usual Winter Track Work between ATL and NOL!!! North of Atlanta in the NC Mountains its Darn Cold also!!!Why the heck is the Crescent cancelled? They should at least run it from NOL to WAS, but I'm not aware of anything as severe along that route as what they are experiencing along the LSL, SWC, CZ, IZ, TE, and the NEC.
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