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Thanks. Regardless of how the data is stored, retrieved and presented it can obviously be done. The hard part seems to convince them to do it or get RPA after them.

Reading this thread, and that Facebook thread, is extremely aggravating. Does someone really have to hand-hold their IT department and teach them how to pull info from a database and reformat into table form? If they are currently overworked updating timetables as claimed in that FB thread...

Well isn't that an interesting little gem. I will contact RPA again next week and ask them about it. I will also call Amtrak Customer Relations. It's a little aggravating we have to beg for updated timetables, or timetables at all. Also, making the National Timetables PDF is easy - all you...

I noticed Amtrak Cascades has an updated PDF timetable on their website, effective May 24, 2021: https://www.amtrakcascades.com/our-train-schedules I did phone and write to RPA/NARP requesting they ask Amtrak about the PDF timetables going missing for some routes as noted in this thread. Also...

I'll also keep Amtrak Timetable Archives - Home updated as best I can. I did like Amtrak's page that had all the PDF timetables together....one-stop shopping.

Yeah, I was looking for them too, to be sure I hadn't missed any updates for my archive. I have PDFs available at: Amtrak Timetable Archives - Home

I am "sort of" OK with lengthening the schedule if the train runs more on time, but I doubt NS will actually handle it any better. It's sad some of the freight RRs can't handle just 1 train in each direction, but I digress. I'm more disappointed they made #20 leave 2 hours later from NOL...

I think this is just a tough nut to crack - I do know the data can almost certainly be gathered since it appears in the web browser, but making it automated, reliable and decently fast is another matter. Too bad Amtrak just won't change their web display to show a fare calendar view like the...

Zephyr17 beat me to it, but "ASMAD" can give you some historical info on connecting trains. You just need the arriving train #, departing train # and station code. Here is the link: https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/archive/html/connections.php I am also disappointed with the Crescent...

ASMAD is a great tool, but I couldn't do it without Amtrak Status Maps, and Amtrak's Better-Track-A-Train also fills in data. Team effort! :)

I keep a running archive of the PDF schedules Amtrak posts to their website: Archived Amtrak Timetables (ASMAD) As far as I know my list has the last-known updated PDFs, including current tri-weekly and the daily versions before COVID.

Not a problem for ARROW, no. But they may limit what they consider too many queries to their website fare lookups, which could indicate some kind of auto scraping.

When I looked at coding automated fare searches to resurrect Amsnag, I got that message, too. So I suspect their system is flagging too many queries in a certain amount of time.

Hello, it's not the algorithm. Amtrak makes it very difficult to scrape their website using automated software. We have tried multiple ways of extracting the fare info in a reliable and consistent manner, which has not worked despite many hours of trying. Maybe someone should write Congress...

niemi24s, thanks for the link about the pre-Covid timetables. I did not know they were around. I keep an archive of recent Amtrak timetables on my ASMAD website.

Just to confirm, Amtrak's Track-A-Train is down and so that affects Amtrak/VIA Live Map Unfortunately Amtrak doesn't seem to give this data high priority for fixes or reliability. Not sure why.

Here's an ASMAD update thanks to an idea from JB at http://statusmaps.com I've updated my search page that will display the total number of trains scheduled to run over a range of dates. The results presentation will now optionally break out the number of scheduled trains by route name. This...

ASMAD is a database of Amtrak on time performance, and it has a connecting trains query that will show missed connections. For example, searching arriving train 49 (Lake Shore) connecting to train 7 (Empire Builder) at Chicago shows no missed connections since Oct 30 (they would show up in...

I am not great at reading the Federal Register, but it seems like the final rule for OTP has been established and goes into effect next month. SUMMARY: This final rule establishes metrics and minimum standards for measuring the performance and service quality of intercity passenger train...

I looked into this, too, and it's a challenge. I made some coding progress but it wasn't really clear it would work reliably so I had to put it down for now. The Amtrak website essentially does a very effective job of blocking automated queries.