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Answered my question, just saw a UP unit in front of TWO Genesis locomotives pulling four Superliners.......................On the STL CAM

Why is TE 11 hours late out of STL? Mechanical?

Yes, but this train has two consists because of the cancelled 22 two days ago.

So where did TE drop off a locomotive and four cars? STL?

Weird, last night 22 was three locomotives and 8 cars long leaving Texas, but today in STL, over 4 hours late, it left with 5 cars and two locomotives.

22 south of FTW seems to be having problems. Loosing an hour.

There are protect Superliner cars in San Antonio for this very reason. Old pic...

So today's 22 from SAT is canceled of course and I guess tomorrow's 22 will look like the 22 from happier times with two locos , one of the two being ferried back to CHI, pulling 8 Superliners. No need to add the Superliner coach in STL.

Thanks, I meant whoever at Amtrak is sitting in front of a screen making these decisions, not a freight railroad dispatcher.

How is it a dispatcher in DC or CHI thinks it makes sense to hold 1 at SAT instead of putting connecting pax on a charter out of Temple or Austin and meet 1 at El Paso. Back in the good ole days of the 80s and 90s, Amtrak a few times put them on a SWA flight in DAL and flew them to El Paso and...

Sarcasm on........................So glad Amtrak left Sunset Station, it was a step up moving to a bus station in the shadow of the Alamo Dome (that we visitors are still paying for through hotel taxes but that is another story)..............................Sarcasm off...

Page 644, So Coach passengers will have Sightseer lounge accommodations...

If this project goes to Stadler, does the Utah facility have the capacity for 500 car order?

And that is the point I appreciated the most in that interview, one cannot design LD equipment based on decades-old tradition. The market today would not appreciate the "good ole days". Their needs and expectations are different. Glad Gardner referenced the Canadian's equipment, eventually and...

That may be all true but we are also not playing the political shell game he is playing either with funding. Amtrak, rightly or wrongly is a political beast. Where common sense economic planning goes out the window as soon as a congressman's aide is calling you. Even Amtrak's greatest CEO...