I've got a short hop planned for tomorrow (Sat, Jul 7) from SLC to Grand Junction. So when just checking to see how things were moving today, I saw the California Zephyr is way off schedule in Salt Lake City. On Amtrak's "track your train" map, the 6 is shown off route and is near a town called "Montello" near the Utah/Nevada border.
The westbound 5 appears to still be in SLC, but its last status update was 4:28am MT (a little over 3 hours ago). Amtrak says it departed at 5:21am after getting here shortly after 1am.
I couldn't find any reports of derailments. Maybe wildfires are affecting things? Has anyone heard anything about this disruption? Funny thing is Amtrak still lists these as big five hour delays and hasn't gone into "service disruption" mode.
Hoping today's 6 out of Emeryville fares better..
The westbound 5 appears to still be in SLC, but its last status update was 4:28am MT (a little over 3 hours ago). Amtrak says it departed at 5:21am after getting here shortly after 1am.
I couldn't find any reports of derailments. Maybe wildfires are affecting things? Has anyone heard anything about this disruption? Funny thing is Amtrak still lists these as big five hour delays and hasn't gone into "service disruption" mode.
Hoping today's 6 out of Emeryville fares better..