amamba
Engineer
I am just curious to see what the longest delay you have ever personally been on.
Share your stories, too!
Share your stories, too!
Just read your trip report. WOW. What an adventure. Too bad you ended up with less than adequate food and much less than adequate service on the LSL.Penny I was delayed for 29.5 hours on the EB this week! Check out my trip report in the travelogues! Freight derailment in Montana.
I am finally home and on my sofa with my dog on my lap, but before I left my in-laws a few hours ago, I heard the train whistle from the house, and I actually kind of missed the sound of the whistle and the gentle rocking of the train car....
My worst story was SPK-BFD with a bus to LVS. There was a derailment on a bridge outside of Albany, Oregon, and we waited forever. Missed my connection in BFD. Put in AmHotel with broken AC (100+) and no elevator to second floor (with lots of luggage). Maybe equal was a trip out of Emeryville. Shooting on the tracks north of the CS route. Full bustitution to SPK.I am just curious to see what the longest delay you have ever personally been on.
Share your stories, too!
He was on vacation, IIRC in the Bay Area, and was to return via the CS. A week or so before his return trip, a huge mud slide in the mountains of Oregon took out a large chunk of the mountain. That slide took out the tracks, not once, but twice, as the tracks looped around and were hit by the slide a second time. It took about 2 months just to stabilize the mountain, and even longer to put back the tracks.yarrow, what happened when your train got cancelled in the middle of a trip with no alternate transportation?!
Wow, I just had one of the best waiters ever on Amtrak coming west on the LSL; Alex. I'm hoping that we get to see him again on our return trip.Yeah I took the LSL last year and don't remember the dining staff being so rude. Now my H is on the fence about our trip on the silvers to Deerfield Beach this November. Give me some good news about the silvers to get him on board.
I am on a Silver now with Vic as my SCA. Dark chocolate on the counter and he remembered I like extra pillows. I have 5!!!!Yeah I took the LSL last year and don't remember the dining staff being so rude. Now my H is on the fence about our trip on the silvers to Deerfield Beach this November. Give me some good news about the silvers to get him on board.
we had taken the cs spk-lax and our return trip was booked lax-sfo and sfo-spk to spend 3 days in sf on our way home. at the end of our 3 days we took our tickets and went to emeryville to catch the cs only to be informed it was cancelled due to a slide in oregon with no alternate transportation. the agent refunded our tickets at the station and we rented a car and drove 900 miles home in a january snowstorm. the kids were small then so it was not such a good thingyarrow, what happened when your train got cancelled in the middle of a trip with no alternate transportation?!