WAZZUP with today's (11/6) 97 & 98?

[DooBdoo]

Looks like they went into a vortex around Petersburg/Richmond.

Unusual delays around there. Normal changes/ switches are at Fayetteville.

Anybody update?

 

[afigg]

Delays between Alexandria (ALX) to Rocky Mount (RMT) and Fayetteville NC are not unusual. There have been far fewer in the past 2 months since CSX apparently wrapped summer track work, but they still happen. If CSX were to fully double track the A-line from south of Petersburg to south of Rocky Mount, it would be a big help to the Silver, Palmetto, Carolinian services. Virginia will be providing funds to improve the CSX track from RVR to the turnoff to Norfolk so they can add 2 more daily trains to Norfolk.

In this case, southbound #97(11/05) was 50 minutes late arriving at WAS after departing BAL 18 minutes late, and then encountered more delays between ALX to RVR and PTB to RMT. The northbound #98(11/05) lost time from Florence to PTB, but appears to be making it up.

Here is the Amtrak Status map dump for #97 through FLO showing the delays.

* Train 97 of 11/05/2014.
* Silver Meteor
* +---------------- Station code
* |    +----------- Schedule Arrival Day 
* |    |  +-------- Schedule Arrival time
* |    |  |     +----- Schedule Departure Day
* |    |  |     |  +-- Schedule Departure Time
* |    |  |     |  |     +------------- Actual Arrival Time
* |    |  |     |  |     |     +------- Actual Departure Time
* |    |  |     |  |     |     |     +- Comments
* V    V  V     V  V     V     V     V
* NYP  *  *     1  315P  *     319P  Departed:  4 minutes late.
* NWK  *  *     1  338P  *     344P  Departed:  6 minutes late.
* TRE  *  *     1  418P  *     423P  Departed:  5 minutes late.
* PHL  *  *     1  458P  *     501P  Departed:  3 minutes late.
* WIL  *  *     1  522P  *     525P  Departed:  3 minutes late.
* BAL  *  *     1  614P  *     632P  Departed:  18 minutes late.
* WAS  1  700P  1  730P  750P  825P  Departed:  55 minutes late.
* ALX  *  *     1  750P  *     849P  Departed:  59 minutes late.
* RVR  1  940P  1  950P  1104P 1117P Departed:  1 hour and 27 minutes late.
* PTB  *  *     1  1024P *     1150P Departed:  1 hour and 26 minutes late.
* RMT  *  *     1  1156P *     214A  Departed:  2 hours and 18 minutes late.
* FAY  *  *     2  134A  *     416A  Departed:  2 hours and 42 minutes late.
* FLO  2  320A  2  328A  531A  539A  Departed:  2 hours and 11 minutes late.

 

[xyzzy]

There is no plan to double-track south of Petersburg (specifically Collier Yard). However, there is a plan to add three crossovers on the existing sections of double-track in North Carolina between Collier Yard and Rocky Mount. This will help.

As long as SEHSR talks about restoring the direct Raleigh-Collier Yard line (ex-Seaboard Air Line) for passenger trains and selected freight trains, you would see any major investment in the ex-ACL between Collier Yard and Florida.

 

[Acela150]

The same thing that WAZZZUPPP in 2000...