Edgefan
Service Attendant
Hey all,
Packed up and came down to MTP today prior to our tomorrow morning (?) departure. Also like to spread out my options. Can Drop down to Fort Madison and grab the Chief or head over to Galesburg for an Illinois service train. Looks like the Zephyr is behaving itself in that, we can probably make the Cardinal connection. The real reason I'm posting is we popped over to say hi to our favorite station agent prior to #5's arrival tonight. He was kicked back reading what I thought was just a magazine. He slid it under his window slot saying this is for two of my favorite people, first one out of the box! It was the new system timetable! Larger, 144 pages, bound like a book, not stapled. St. Louis Arch as the backdrop. Effective date: Nov 8, 2010. Have not had a chance to read it cover to cover, but what I did check was to see if Amtrak adjusted Eagle/Sunset arrival into LAX so that you could have a guaranteed connection to Coast Starlight's #14. Nope. I had hoped that with all the other adjustments, surely they could adjust the Eagle/Sunset arrival by 15 to 30 min. Maybe next time. Also, been brought up before, but I can confirm that Sleepers on #5 were on the tail. MTP station agent said they swapped them back again last week. It was about 40 min late. No word on why. They did not have any of the car numbers changed to a #5 train. (all cars were in a train #6 configuration) Excited to be back on the train tomorrow.
Packed up and came down to MTP today prior to our tomorrow morning (?) departure. Also like to spread out my options. Can Drop down to Fort Madison and grab the Chief or head over to Galesburg for an Illinois service train. Looks like the Zephyr is behaving itself in that, we can probably make the Cardinal connection. The real reason I'm posting is we popped over to say hi to our favorite station agent prior to #5's arrival tonight. He was kicked back reading what I thought was just a magazine. He slid it under his window slot saying this is for two of my favorite people, first one out of the box! It was the new system timetable! Larger, 144 pages, bound like a book, not stapled. St. Louis Arch as the backdrop. Effective date: Nov 8, 2010. Have not had a chance to read it cover to cover, but what I did check was to see if Amtrak adjusted Eagle/Sunset arrival into LAX so that you could have a guaranteed connection to Coast Starlight's #14. Nope. I had hoped that with all the other adjustments, surely they could adjust the Eagle/Sunset arrival by 15 to 30 min. Maybe next time. Also, been brought up before, but I can confirm that Sleepers on #5 were on the tail. MTP station agent said they swapped them back again last week. It was about 40 min late. No word on why. They did not have any of the car numbers changed to a #5 train. (all cars were in a train #6 configuration) Excited to be back on the train tomorrow.
