Viewliner
Engineer
For my schedule, what do I go by? The times that the reservation system gives or the times that the Check Train Status does?
The full press release can also be found here.As part of the ongoing effort to repair and maintain the nation's railroad infrastructure, major track work will occur this spring between Savannah, Ga. and Jacksonville, Fla.
Freight railroad company CSX will be installing 104,000 concrete and wooden ties as well as 9,000 feet of new rail on the line they own and operate between Savannah and Jacksonville. Since Amtrak trains use this line, this infrastructure upgrade will temporarily affect Amtrak's service in the Southeast.
For a two-month period trains 97 & 98, the southbound and northbound Silver Meteor, will be canceled. The effective dates are April 24 to June 22. To accommodate passengers traveling between New York, Miami and points in between, the Silver Star (trains 91 & 92) will become a 'super train' adding cars and increasing capacity.
This expanded train will consist of 2 locomotives and 16 cars:
6 coaches
4 sleeping cars
2 dining cars
1 lounge car
2 baggage cars
1 crew car
Extra staff will also be added to the 'super trains' to serve the additional passengers.
The new makeup of the Silver Star requires a shift in its current schedule. Beginning April 24, train 91 will leave New York Penn Station at 9:45 a.m. with a scheduled arrival into Miami the next day at 3:38 p.m. Beginning April 25, train 92 will leave Miami at 8:35 a.m. with a scheduled arrival into New York Penn Station the next day at 2:30 p.m. Also The Palmetto, trains 89 & 90, will add stops in Yemassee, S.C., a stop normally served only by trains 97 & 98.
During the modified service, train 91 will not make a station stop in Trenton, N.J. The northbound and southbound Silver Star will both add stops in Jesup, Ga. and Okeechobee, Fla.
Due to the change in the operation of the Silver Service trains, several connections will be unavailable during the track work and modified schedule.
The Capitol Limited, train 30 (Chicago to Washington, D.C.) will not connect with train 91 at Washington Union Station.
Train 95 (Boston to Newport News, VA) will not connect with train 91 at New York for travel from New England.
There will be no connection from South Florida to train 1, The Sunset Limited, at Orlando.
The Piedmont, train 74 (Charlotte to Raleigh) will not connect with train 91 at Raleigh.
The Sunset Limited, train 2 (Los Angeles to Orlando) will not connect with train 92 in Jacksonville.
In addition, several bus connections between Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Myers will be affected by the temporary service change.
Bus 6091 & 6092 will operate approximately 2 hours 15 minutes earlier than normal.
Bus 6097 & 6098 are canceled.
In lieu of 6097 & 6098, an express bus will operate from Tampa to Orlando in order to provide passengers from The Palmetto, trains 89 & 90 access to Orlando.
To ensure accurate travel planning and smooth connections, we urge passengers to contact our toll free reservation service at 1-800-USA-RAIL with any questions regarding the scheduled service changes.
Well first off I'm not sure why you are trying to get the time for a ride that Amtrak won't sell you, DLB- HOL.Viewliner said:I checked both the Reservation and Train Status Pages, and both give me very diferent times for 1191/91 from DLB-HOL and 1192/92 from WAS-NWK. I'm not sure which to go by.
This is Amtrak!!! Who said it would operate on schedule the first run? :lol: h34r:Guest said:It seems the first run isn't going to well schedule wise.
I used a date that the train would be running, either a date in May, or a few days from now. I was trying to publish a(n unofficial) schedule, and I'm getting 4-6 mins difference on 91 for DLB, DFB, FTL, and HOL between the reservations and train status' page. On the corridor for 92, there's an hour's difference at Washington (9:45 vs 10:45), 24 mins difference in BAL (11:02 vs 11:26), 37 mins difference in WIL (11:53 vs 12:25), 4 mins difference in TRE, 3 mins difference in NWK, same time for NYP. So it mainly on the southern part of the corridor that has me confused. I'll go ahead and post the schedule I made up on my site, as well as that consist from today.AlanB said:Well first off I'm not sure why you are trying to get the time for a ride that Amtrak won't sell you, DLB- HOL.Viewliner said:I checked both the Reservation and Train Status Pages, and both give me very diferent times for 1191/91 from DLB-HOL and 1192/92 from WAS-NWK. I'm not sure which to go by.
However that said, when I check Train Status and Reservations, I get ar 1:50 at DLB arrival from both places.
When you check the train status page, are you using tomorrows date or todays date? :unsure: That would cause a problem. While you can use the 24th for the reservation side, you've got to use the 25th for the status side. Remember that the train arriving today at DLB is running it's normal schedule.
Yeah, I agree all goes as well as it did today it'll be two months of the "Silver Screw Up." I still say it would've been easier to just change the Meteor's times as was the initial plan.Amfleet said:As it stands now P1191(24) is running 4 1/2 hours late at Jacksonvile, FL. This was due in part to the AEM-7s Well, this is gonna be one heck of interesting two months. Why, if all goes well we can call it the "Silver Failure".
I think the reason that they combined the two trains is that after rescheduling the Silver Star and Meteor due to the track work the two trains would have run on baisicly the same schedule. And while things have got off to a rough start just give the guys a week to get used to things.Viewliner said:Yeah, I agree all goes as well as it did today it'll be two months of the "Silver Screw Up." I still say it would've been easier to just change the Meteor's times as was the initial plan.Amfleet said:As it stands now P1191(24) is running 4 1/2 hours late at Jacksonvile, FL. This was due in part to the AEM-7s Well, this is gonna be one heck of interesting two months. Why, if all goes well we can call it the "Silver Failure".
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