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    21(7)

    What in the world happened to #21 yesterday? It lost over 11 hours between Chicago & Joliet!
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    Say what?

    Sitting in Chicago's Met Lounge waiting to board #30. The arrivals screens all say #8 is due in at 6:10... #28 at 6:25. Kudo's Amtrak!
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    Silver Star Baggage?

    Driving in Richmond this evening I saw the southbound Silver Star crossing the James River, I see that fairly often but the last few times I've seen it the baggage car was either on the rear or totally missing, todays consist didn't seem to have one, unless it was disguised as an Amfleet coach...
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    interesting consist

    A friend of mine is/was bumming around Galesburg, IL today and sent me a pic of a really strange Amtrak consist that is "sitting just short of the Galesburg station" It's a front facing P42 (#823), Horizon cafe car and a rear facing engine, probably also a P42. And thats it. I don't really...
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    Somebody is doing their job

    A friend of mine is on #7 (20) right now. Their Engine crew went dead a little ago before hitting Minot. But someone somewhere was doing their job because the relief crew was there and had it back in the road within 20 minutes. That's one of the quickest resolves I've seen in this situation...
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    Texas Eagle?

    Why is todays #22 detouring through Palestine, Tx? At least it's showing up as being in Palestine on the Amtraker
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    Superliner question

    Be forewarned this is going to be disgusting. My apologies in advance. Last week I rode the Texas Eagle and Sunset Limited from Chicago to Los Angeles. Overall it was a fantastic ride but on the last night a problem came up seemingly out of nowhere. Between San Antonio and LAX I had a...
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    #21/#1 Question. I know this has been asked before

    I know this is a multiple repeat question, but I'm on my phone and I can't do a search. Please forgive me. I booked a trip for next week on #21/#1. A bedroom on #421 was $850, I got separate rooms on #21 & #1 combines for $250 less (Thank You Amsnag!) My question is, when do they board #1 in San...
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    #11 Thru Feather River today (6/14)

    I have a friend traveling from Tacoma to the Bay Area on #11 last night and today. They were stopped at Klamath Falls for a few hours due to a derailment near Dunsmuir, CA. Instead of the normal bus bridge, evidently Amtrak and BNSF are giving the passengers quite a treat. They were waiting for...
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    L'Enfant

    Amtrak 174 stops at L'Enfant now? Is this new? I thought we were waiting for tunnel access into DC, but a bunch of people detrained. Interesting
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    More cascade Problems

    This one not really related to the lovely PNW weather. I have a friend on #500 thats currently stuck somewhere near Centralia because a truck has wedged itself under a BNSF overpass. They've just announced on the trainitercom that they're (whoever THEY are) are trying to let the ait out of the...
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    #67 New Years Eve/Day

    I've just book a trip leaving NYP for Richmond at 3:00am on #67 in Business Class... i've heard the train is usually crowded North of New York, but how is it to the South? Not that i really care, I'm not really planning on sleeping much anyway. Has anyone ridden it on a weekend or Holiday? This...
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    oooops

    A friend of mine is on #11 out of Tacoma this morning, they were delayed about 90 mins in Olympia when a private citizen cut down a tree, which fell on some power lines which fell on the track. I know about 200 people that would to throttle the guy about now. Doesn't sound like the right of way...
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    St. Paul?

    Does anybody have any idea when the New (old) St. Paul Depot will actually start being used by the Empire Builder? All I could find online was "2012" <sorry if theres another topic on this, I searched the forums but didn't see any>
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    Sunset Limited #1 (6)

    A friend of mine is on the Westbound Sunset Limited that left New Orleans on Monday. They left San Antonio yesterday and made it as far as Uvalde, TX when the big UP Freight derailment near Del Rio happened. They waited a few hours on site before being towed back to San Antonio, where they...
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    Amtrak Survery

    Ok so I took a standard NEC trip RVR-NYP-RVR over a weekend back in mid june. Today, August 11, I'm get the usual customer survery for the NYP-RVR section. nothing unusual there really other then the trip was 2 months ago today (how am i supposed to remember what the restroom in business class...
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    Just wondering

    I was looking at some on my old National Timetables from Amtrak from the 80s or early 90s and I saw a small unnamed train that only seemed to run between Schenectady, NY and Albany-Rensselaer. It got me wondering if that was Amtrak's short ever regularly scheduled revenue train, distance wise...
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    Summer Project

    My 11 year old son is starting his Summer Vacation in a few days and I'm giving his a summer project. He's a huge railfan, like his Dad and Grandpa. His project is to design his own Amtrak system, using existing lines, exceptions being he can build small connections from one line to another, but...
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    ok why?

    Ok I just finshed a week long trip from Richmond up to DC over to Chicago then LA and San Francisco... Overall it was a fantabulous trip, but, as usual I have a couple of questions and comments. #1 last Monday (the 12th) my friend and I left DC on the Capitol Limited headed for Chicago. We had...
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    An Auto Train UGH

    My son was on this train with his best friends and their parents. Not a good first impression of Amtrak for them. http://www.wftv.com/news/23980764/detail.html
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