I see a little mistake in the timetable.

[Bill Haithcoat]

Not that this is the most crucial post we have ever had...but just happened to notice. Quite a bit has been said about the Kentucky Cardinal lately and I noticed the Kentucky Card timetable listing shows Dyer, Ind., at 303miles: Chicago at 312 miles., a total of nine miles. But for the Cardinal it shows Dyer at 892 miles ( from Washington, of course) and Chicago 921, a total of 29 miles. So that is a slight discrepancy.

Reminds of the timetable in the 40's I have seen reprinted which shows a certain train which operated every third day as operating every third YEAR!!

Anyone see any other mistakes in the present timetable? Or remember any really good ones from the past?

 

[Steve4031]

The schedule for the Sunset Limited is always a mistake. That train is never on time.

 

[AlanB]

Bill,

That's not the only mistake one can find in the timetables. If one picks up a copy of the NE Corridor schedule, the distance from NY to DC is 226. However, if you look at the Silver Service in the National timetable, those trains only need to travel 225 miles to reach DC from NY.

 

[Steve4031]

Bill,
That's not the only mistake one can find in the timetables. If one picks up a copy of the NE Corridor schedule, the distance from NY to DC is 226. However, if you look at the Silver Service in the National timetable, those trains only need to travel 225 miles to reach DC from NY.

I think the226 is the error. It has been 225 for years. lol

 

[Amfleet]

I believe it was the Winter 2002 NE Timetable that there was more miles on the northbound schedules, than the southbound. It can be really hard to trust the timetables now-a-days with the lateness of trains, change in schedules, and change of equipment.

 

[AlanB]

The mistake exists on more than one timetable. It's been there for a couple of years.

 

[Amfleet]

Hopefully these mistakes only show up in passenger timetables, if not the people who schedule the trains are really screwing up.

 

[Superliner Diner]

Bill,
That's not the only mistake one can find in the timetables. If one picks up a copy of the NE Corridor schedule, the distance from NY to DC is 226. However, if you look at the Silver Service in the National timetable, those trains only need to travel 225 miles to reach DC from NY.

One mile is not a big difference -- it depends on which end of the train you begin your measurements!! :lol:

The distance between Dyer and Chicago, whether it's 9 miles or 29 miles, the time it takes for the Cardinal/Kentucky Cardinal to negotiate that route seems like it's 100 miles. There are many turns onto different railroads, during which the train has to wait at each junction for permission to proceed onto the next railroad. I believe that Amtrak, Metra, UP, CN (former GTW), and CSX are all involved.

 

[Bill Haithcoat]

Superliner Diner---Ours is a complicated hobby, isn't it? And in looking at it I was just thinking how painfully slow that train is....yet there are reasons for such things, as least sometimes....... as you point out.