My experiences on my outbound trip on 7 were covered in the detour thread in the other forum. That detour never happened. I misunderstood what the agent was telling me, assuming she was talking about the outbound leg of my trip rather than the return.
We watched the weather channel dramatize the oncoming winter storm Gage which will impact my trip Monday night and Tuesday morning. According to agent 8 will detour and skip rugby, devils, lake and Grand Forks. BNSF implements directional running in this area when there are snow storms and blizzards. This eliminates unnecessary switching for meets between oncoming trains and this hopefully prevents delays caused by frozen switches.
The name Gage conjures images of a Blond snow flake child reared by free range parent who been benignly watch there darling wander and reach havoc as they noisily explore.
Fargo is experiencing blizzard conditions with about 10 inches of snow expected. Devils lake is expecting 1-4 inches. Minot is not expecting any snow. Barring any BNSF issues or Amtrak issues 8 should do ok into Minot. After Minot it will be interesting. That’s where we will detour. Will there be a pilot crew ready? Will there the storm have impacted the tail infrastructure? We shall see.
After Fargo we regain the regular route. Detroit lakes is also under winter storm warning with 4-8 inches of snow expected. St. Cloud is is expecting 3-5 inches. And Minneapolis St. Paul 3-6 inches. The winter advisory continues to Tomah with the area getting 3-5 inches of snow.
The equipment for today’s 8 is currently in Seattle so we should have an onTime departure today.
We watched the weather channel dramatize the oncoming winter storm Gage which will impact my trip Monday night and Tuesday morning. According to agent 8 will detour and skip rugby, devils, lake and Grand Forks. BNSF implements directional running in this area when there are snow storms and blizzards. This eliminates unnecessary switching for meets between oncoming trains and this hopefully prevents delays caused by frozen switches.
The name Gage conjures images of a Blond snow flake child reared by free range parent who been benignly watch there darling wander and reach havoc as they noisily explore.
Fargo is experiencing blizzard conditions with about 10 inches of snow expected. Devils lake is expecting 1-4 inches. Minot is not expecting any snow. Barring any BNSF issues or Amtrak issues 8 should do ok into Minot. After Minot it will be interesting. That’s where we will detour. Will there be a pilot crew ready? Will there the storm have impacted the tail infrastructure? We shall see.
After Fargo we regain the regular route. Detroit lakes is also under winter storm warning with 4-8 inches of snow expected. St. Cloud is is expecting 3-5 inches. And Minneapolis St. Paul 3-6 inches. The winter advisory continues to Tomah with the area getting 3-5 inches of snow.
The equipment for today’s 8 is currently in Seattle so we should have an onTime departure today.