Recent content by Amtrak57

Yes, there is a 77-minute scheduled wait at Albany due to the train splitting.

I got caught in a heat wave coming back from NC on the Palmetto last week. As explained by the station staff and train crew, CSX requires all trains to operate 20 mph under the speed limit if the temperature reaches 85 degrees or over. (i.e. 79 mph now becomes 59 mph and so on)

As an interesting coincidence 46 was also the diesel on the train I took back from my North Carolina trip (90). We changed engines at DC this time though.

We didn’t, we kept the same diesel.

I’m currently on 79 and for some reason we did the engine swap to desiel in Philadelphia instead of DC. Anyone know why and how rare is this occurrence?

Just wondering does Amtrak usually accommodate people on other trains in this situation for riders Boarding North of Cary, NC? Like 92 riders take trains 80 and 90. Or do they have to wait it out?

Probably happened a very long time ago since it’s now impossible to go east of buffalo depew with superliners since Rochester, Syracuse and Albany all have hi-level platforms now making it impossible for a superliners to stop.

The Palmetto has BC as well but I kinda see it as a downgrade since it has all the amenities of an Amfleet 2 Coach but with smaller windows.

You should be good, they don’t check carry ons like the airlines so you should have no issue.

It looked like people were only sitting in the front half of the car, I didn’t see anyone sitting in the rear half except crew though

I took 91 and 92 last week and it was open for seating on both trains

Is this the latest an Amtrak Train has ever been? I heard it got stuck behind a derailed freight train and that’s why it’s so late.

Why does Amtrak train 64 have so much dwell time compared to the other empire trains? I can kinda get why it has a longer stop in Albany since the engine used to be changed back when the Maple Leaf went to Canada but why the extra 35 ish minutes to get to Schenectady from Amsterdam?

Seems to be fixed, The Amtrak portion of the live map is back up again.

Although the bus might be a bit quicker on the schedule, many people don't like taking the bus for many reasons as well that they are much more prone to delays than trains are due to traffic. A good example would be going from Syracuse to NYC with the bus having shorter travel times but a lot of...