montana mike
Conductor
Just when we thought things were settling down a bit to "only" 2-3 hour delays for arrivals into CHI and close to normal arrival times (albeit with the extra time built in) into SEA/PDX, the Hi-Line route is starting to experience major delays again--and on weekends, which used to offer a little bit of better news. Today's EB in MN is now well over 7 hours late and getting worse. #7 in WA is over 6 1/2 hours late. Thank goodness for the extra train set.
I will be traveling on the EB's in late October and Amtrak informed me yesterday that the "extended and padded schedule" will continue for the foreseeable future, as BNSF would not offer assurances to Amtrak that the Empire Builders would be able to run anywhere close to normal transit times at any time in the near future. I wonder how that one train made it on time a couple weeks ago???
:-(
I will be traveling on the EB's in late October and Amtrak informed me yesterday that the "extended and padded schedule" will continue for the foreseeable future, as BNSF would not offer assurances to Amtrak that the Empire Builders would be able to run anywhere close to normal transit times at any time in the near future. I wonder how that one train made it on time a couple weeks ago???
:-(