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railfangns
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Houston, Dallas-Ft Worth Abileen,Midland-Odessa to El Paso and connect with the sunset limited there
I went one trip on the sunset from San Antonio to Ft worth via the eagle route then out through abileen
Midland-Odessa, Big Springs into El Paso because the SP had a big freight derailment in Sanderson TX
We were 12 hours late getting into El Paso and 15 hours late getting into LA.We had a UP crew work from
Ft worth to Big Springs and we had to fuel of our 2 engines and a crew change was made there where
another UP crew took over.We had the P30CH engines on our train and we met train 2 west of Fort
worth they got rerouted also.I dont think the UP crews were too fond of the P30Ch units as i heard one
of them talking about them in the dining car.More food and supplies got loaded on at Fort Worth. I seen
boxes of food that someone had went to a store and bought.Funny thing about that trip we ended up
in Phoenix at noon and i heard it was 105 degrees outside so i asked the conductor can i step out so i
could see what that desert heat felt like.He let me step out and it really didnt feel bad because it was a
dry heat unlike our heat here in GA.Got into LA at 10 pm instead of 7 am so i missed my connection
with the coast starlight so amtrak bussed us to San Franciso then i made the first flight of my life on
Alaska airlines to Seattle.Great flight and they even fed us lunch after we took off.Try getting food on
the airlines now days.That is a heavily populated area of Texas more so than the current sunset route
that travels through Del Rio Sanderson and Alpine.Also put Phoenix back on the sunset route they are
missing a huge city by not stopping there.
Houston, Dallas-Ft Worth Abileen,Midland-Odessa to El Paso and connect with the sunset limited there
I went one trip on the sunset from San Antonio to Ft worth via the eagle route then out through abileen
Midland-Odessa, Big Springs into El Paso because the SP had a big freight derailment in Sanderson TX
We were 12 hours late getting into El Paso and 15 hours late getting into LA.We had a UP crew work from
Ft worth to Big Springs and we had to fuel of our 2 engines and a crew change was made there where
another UP crew took over.We had the P30CH engines on our train and we met train 2 west of Fort
worth they got rerouted also.I dont think the UP crews were too fond of the P30Ch units as i heard one
of them talking about them in the dining car.More food and supplies got loaded on at Fort Worth. I seen
boxes of food that someone had went to a store and bought.Funny thing about that trip we ended up
in Phoenix at noon and i heard it was 105 degrees outside so i asked the conductor can i step out so i
could see what that desert heat felt like.He let me step out and it really didnt feel bad because it was a
dry heat unlike our heat here in GA.Got into LA at 10 pm instead of 7 am so i missed my connection
with the coast starlight so amtrak bussed us to San Franciso then i made the first flight of my life on
Alaska airlines to Seattle.Great flight and they even fed us lunch after we took off.Try getting food on
the airlines now days.That is a heavily populated area of Texas more so than the current sunset route
that travels through Del Rio Sanderson and Alpine.Also put Phoenix back on the sunset route they are
missing a huge city by not stopping there.