Silver Meteor Schedule Shenanigans

[x-press]

Have a trip coming up in February aboard the Meteor Bal-Savannah, and have been watching the train's performance the last week or so. Noticed tonight that the train blew through Baltimore at about 3:30 instead of the scheduled 6:20. A call to Amtrak reservations confirmed that it's running on a different schedule on Sundays.

My questions:

A) Why?

B) Since when?

C) Most importantly, why haven't the schedules on the website (the pdf's under "schedules") been changed?

If I weren't such a railnut, I may well have missed my train by 3 hours!

Sometimes surprise schedule changes are unavoidable, but there should at least be notices on the website, shouldn't there?!

JPS

 

[battalion51]

Today is a Sunday for the Safety Patrol Special. It's still using the symbol P097/P098 so that parents can track the progress of the train. 97 has been annulled for regular passengers today and for the next few Sundays. Hope that explains it. B)

 

[x-press]

Yes it does, Battalion, thank you.

On the bright side, this inspired me to update my contact info with Amtrak so they can contact me in the event of a "real" schedule change, so it wasn't a total waste.

Happy travels!

 

[Guest_Amtrak OBS Employee]

Yes it does, Battalion, thank you.
On the bright side, this inspired me to update my contact info with Amtrak so they can contact me in the event of a "real" schedule change, so it wasn't a total waste.

Happy travels!

Hey there x-press, do you wanna travel with about a eight hundred 10, 11yo boys and girls? I'll see if I can arrange that for you if you like! :lol: Nah just kidding. It is not that bad on the school boy special. OBS...

 

[battalion51]

One thing's for sure though, when that thing pulls into West Palm or Boynton (wherever they're unloading this year), that platform is a madhouse with all those parents and kids trying to find each other.

 

[user 652]

One thing's for sure though, when that thing pulls into West Palm or Boynton (wherever they're unloading this year), that platform is a madhouse with all those parents and kids trying to find each other.

Got that right!