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Bill Haithcoat

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I am ready for my vacation. It is as follows:

Sun 8/10 lv ATL 8.06 p.m. Crescent. standard bedroom

Mon 8/11 ar. WAS 9.50 a.m.

Mon 8/11 lv. WAS 1 p.m. Acela #2166 first class

Mon 8/11 ar BOS 7.30pm

Tues 8/12 lv.Bos 9.30 a.m. #681 business class

Tues 8/12 ar. Portland 12:15 p.m.

Tues 8/12 lv. Portland 4 p.m., #686 coach

Tues 8/12 ar BOS 6.45 p.m.

Wed 8.13 lv. BOS 1:15 p.m. Acela #2167, business class

Wed 8/13 ar NYC 4.42 p.m.

Subway and commuter train riding in NYC area

Sat. 8/16 lv NYC 2.50 p.m. Crescent, deluxe bedroom

Sun 8/17 ar. ATL 8.58 a.m.

Everybody wish we well!! I am looking forward to it.
 
Bill Haithcoat said:
Wed 8.13 lv. BOS 1:15 p.m. Acela #1267, business class
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I assume you mean #2167. :) Enjoy your trip. The Downeaster is a great experience! I leave mid-week next week for Chicago via Washingotn and the Capitol Limited to Chicago. I return same routing 5 days later.
 
Yep, I did mean 2167, just a typo. I corrected it. And let me now wish you a great trip as well, inasmuch as I will not be around to do so next week.
 
Bill, enjoy your trip and it will come soon enough, after all we all need something to look forward to :)
 
Have an excellent trip Bill! I too will be getting back into railfan mode, I plan on taking three trips this week (Monday, Thursday, Saturday), it's amazing the withdrawl symptons you suffer after two weeks of not railfanning. :lol:
 
:) I'm wishing you a great trip. I'm also jealous, seeing as I won't be able to take the train for a while. But, at least I'm sure you'll have a great time.

All the best,

Bob
 
There's no better time to do it but on time. But always remember folks when it comes to travel being early is being on time.
 
Speaking of on-time.....just had to add this in.....

The #2 Sunset is only running 37 minutes late into NOL tonight from L.A!!!! That HAS to be a record or something! :)
 
The crescent usually leaves Atlanta between on time-20 minutes late. Being a native of Atlanta, I have only seen it leave more then 20 minutes late about once every 10 days. There is, as I am sure you know Bill, a plethora of padding between here and New York.

Enjoy your trip! :D
 
Well according to Amtrak, Bill left Atlanta 4 minutes late. However he made good time after that, as he arrived in DC at 9:34 this morning. That's 16 minutes early.

At present his 1:00 PM Acela Express to Boston is running on time, having also left DC on time.
 
That's not bad, I'm glad Bill's trip seems to be working out smoothly. The only bad thing is he got 20 fewer minutes on the Crescent
 
Viewliner said:
That's not bad, I'm glad Bill's trip seems to be working out smoothly. The only bad thing is he got 20 fewer minutes on the Crescent
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He'll survive, after all he then got 6 1/2 hours in First Class on an Acela Express to Boston. :)
 
Bill and I had a successful day of train riding on Thursday, followed by the Thursday night/Friday power failure, which killed our plans for Friday morning.

Thankfully power was restored in time for Bill's scheduled departure today, Saturday, on the Crescent. According to Amtrak Bill left New York only five minutes late. Hopefully the rest of his trip will be smooth and uneventful. :)
 
Well according to Amtrak, Bill has arrived back in Atlanta and only 18 minutes late. So hopefully he's safely at home by now and didn't have any more unusual experiences during his ride home. :)
 
Yep, I am here.....all safe and sound.....actually we got quite late last night, as much as an hour, but made much of it up this morning. There seemed to be some slow orders and also at one time there was a tree on the track which had to be removed. Last time, northbound, in Feb of this year, there had been a barrell on the track, Oh, well.

I just dropped into the office...have a lot of work to do, may or may not get back to the post today, but thanks, everybody for keeping up with me, and thanks, Alan, for a good time and your concerns for me while I was there. All was totally normal looking at Penn Station Saturday morning, everything was working, open, etc. It was a great trip, The power thing just adds to my memories....at least it did not interrupt the long distance part of the trip. Too bad we did not get into the NJTransit area, but there is always another day.

As I told you, I bring disaster wherever I go, i.e. Hurricane Camille in New Orleans, a true bliizzard(Storm of 93) in Birmingham, Ala., track washouts on the CZ and whatever else...just have a knack for that sort of thing.

Much of the rest of the day will be spent cleaning up the viagra ads and junk spam on this thing, before I can do any real work for my company, or respond to any more postings.
 
the B'ham blizzard of '93...

I remember that one, so it was your fault, eh Bill? :) :) How about a quick trip to Sacramento, I could use a few days off of work :) Glad you enjoyed your trip.
 
Bill, glad your trip went well for the most part. I guess you owe yourself another crescent trip so you can ride NJ Transit. :lol:
 
For the record P097-14, which left New York on Thursday, the first day of the outage, she arrived in Miami at 6:30 Saturday morning, YIKES!!! The train was interesting when it arrived in Miami, coahces up front, sleepers and baggage in the rear. Now that's real Sunnyside laziness for ya!
 
battalion51 said:
The train was interesting when it arrived in Miami, coahces up front, sleepers and baggage in the rear. Now that's real Sunnyside laziness for ya!
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That's not being lazy, that's not having power to move the train and the cars around. The diesels were out rescuing stranded trains.

Also remember that all the switches in the yard required someone to get out and move them by hand. There was no power to operate them. There were also no signals so all moves, including yard moves, were kept to a minimum.

So depending on the last position of the various switches they might have just run him in backwards with diesel power. After all between the yard switches, the tunnel approach switches, and the switches in Penn, one could easily have needed to manually move at least 6 to 8 switches, and maybe more, to have pulled 97 into the station in the correct order.

That's a lot of switches to manually throw in 90 degree heat, with high humidity, and no power or lights. Plus you had stalled NJT, LIRR, and Amtrak trains already sitting at many of the platforms at Penn waiting for rush hour to begin.

So I'm sure that they choose the path of least resistance to get 97 into the station, without killing the crew. My guess would be that they already had a route lined into the yard for a train that was to have come from Penn, when the power dropped off. Therefore they just ran 97 backwards through that route, rather than having to throw a half-dozen switches by hand.
 
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