Texas Eagle Service Disruption (4/30)

[CCC1007]

Anyone have concrete reasons for having three TE trains in service disruption in Texas? One of the 22's is not at a station, or even in a town. The other 22 and 21 are stopped at stations. I am just curious to know what happened to stop three trains in their tracks.

 

[Grandpa D]

Bad storms in north Texas last night. Tornado west of Hawkins did considerable damage, including trees across the tracks. It's a bustitution for 21 and probably also for 22(29).

22(30) is waiting for clean-up of BNSF rock train at McNeil, TX. No word on how long or if Amtrak will decide on buses.

 

[Lonestar648]

Two bad storm lines passed through with 60+ winds, hail, and heavy downpours. Just your typical Texas thunderstorm line, but this time about 6 hours apart. Roads were littered with debris from trees, etc. Since the lines passed through rather quickly, I haven't heard of any serious flooding like Wimberley last year.

 

[OlympianHiawatha]

With historic rains expected for much of central and east Texas well into Summer, this will be a bad year for the Texas Eagle, and for that matter, the Heartland Flyer.

 

[Lonestar648]

Appears that both 22's are on the move again. The first over 20 hours late heading into STL and the second 7 hours late between Dallas and Texarkana. Not sure what happened to 21 (29), but 21(30) is nearly on time. People were complaining that Texas was in a severe drought. Now the lakes that were down as low as 4% of capacity are sending huge volumes of water over their spillways. Feast or famine in Texas.

 

[greatcats]

What, no input on this from Bob Dylan?

 

[JayPea]

I can't get my feeble mind around the amount of rain some of these places are seeing. 12-18 inches of rain in one storm does not compute. Where I live we have had about 7 inches of precipitation for the year-and that amount is ABOVE normal for the first four months of the average year here.

 

[Bob Dylan]

What, no input on this from Bob Dylan?

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