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    Advice for planning an Empire Builder trip

    Large timekeeping problems on Amtk#8 lately, 4 hrs late this AM at Detroit Lakes running behind a BN freight loco limits track speed to 70.
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    Amtrak delays

    answered my own query, had to wait for 449
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    Amtrak delays

    49 loses almost3hrs tonite between Rhinebeck andAlbany how is this possible?
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    Southwest Chief derailment (June 2022)

    I was just inthis area last fall, the crash site is on the BNSF’s Marceline Sub, a very busy high speed double track railroad diagonally across Missouri from Fort Madison Iowa to Kansas City, it was built by the Santa Fe in late 19’thcentury as an airline deliberately missing populated areas on...
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    Gas prices where you are located?

    Oil is a worldwide commodity and price is mainly governed by laws of supply and demand, while governments can intervene to manipulate prices availability and use eventually determines costs. Interesting to note ask anybody in US the current S&P index number and few will know the answer, ask...
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    Babbling Brook on #3

    Still riding the rear of #3 at Flagstaff, 2 hrs late.
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    Babbling Brook on #3

    Tacked onto the rear of Amtk#3 tonight was the rear end sleeper lounge “Babbling Brook” a 1949 Budd product built for the NYC, operated by Pullman and regular equipment on the New England States until 1956. Car is still badged for the Central and has drumhead from the train, available for...
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    Reroute of SWC in the Galesburg area?

    freights were arriving normally on former at&sf line.
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    Reroute of SWC in the Galesburg area?

    4 came into Galesburg from south yard not on Ft Madison line, lost 59 minutes on route from FM any idea why this detour?
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    Awful timekeeping/on time performance

    I keep an eye almost daily on Amtk long distance trains on YouTube, 3,4,5,6,7,8, 48,49 and these trains are mostly never on time, sometimes 5or 6 hrs late on the Chicago West Coast runs. I’ve watched people just give up and leave intermediate stations like La Plata, Mo when the Chief doesn’t...
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    Lake Shore Limited (lost 4 hours 5/26 why?)

    #49 lost four hours last night between NYC and Albany, anybody know why?
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    Will snow delay/stall trains?

    New man here,live in Denver, surprisingly the CZ doesn’t usually have snow problems in the mountains, while there is plenty of it doesn’t usually drift. Springtime is when trainmasters get nervous, melting snow brings rock slides down on the tracks and derailments can happen. Out on the eastern...
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