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A freight train derailment in the Dodge City area also occurred last May playing similar havoc with No. 3 and 4. If we understand the Amtrak website correctly, the passengers on Nos. 3 and 4 who departed from CHI or LAX will be returned to CHI or LAX. Two questions: if we’d departed from LAX...

You and your peers are exactly the target audience that Amtrak should be trying to reach. When everything works as advertised, a long-distance train trip can be a unique experience unlike any other. Unfortunately, the frequent breakdowns, late arrivals and outright cancellations only serve to...

SWC No. 4 departed LAX today (7/22) on schedule at 5:22 p.m. (At some point, it will pass SWC No. 3 which departed CHI late on 7/20 and which is running 10 hours and 33 minutes behind schedule.) It is encouraging that, despite the tardy arrival of today’s No. 3, No. 4 was able to depart on...

SWC No. 3 won’t be arriving in LAX today (7/22) until 5:15 p.m. As of this morning, the Amtrak train status page still shows SWC No. 4 departing LAX today at its usual time. Apparently, there is another train set available in LA to be able to send out a No. 4 as planned. (Just recently, when a...

It would be nice to hear from some of the now-retired Amtrak maintenance people who also used these manuals and who can comment first hand on how easy or hard it was to understand them.

About a year or so ago, there was some discussion about how Amtrak was having a hard time training its replacement maintenance workers because the replacements didn’t have the reading skills to be able to understand and use the repair manuals. Judging from some of the maintenance-related...

This is all too true. The inconveniences, disappointments, and stresses caused by cancelling a train, particularly during the busy summer travel season when bedrooms, roomettes and even coach seats are often sold out for days to come, has undoubtedly soured many a person on choosing to put their...

I’m guessing that there were a significant number of people with guaranteed connections to sleeping car accommodations on the SWC No. 3 that was supposed to depart CHI on 7/15 and then was cancelled. This might help to explain the decision to add the two extra sleepers to the consist of the SWC...

This now raises the question of why there were two extra sleepers added to the consist of SWC No. 3 that left CHI on 7/16. We were hoping that it was to accommodate those sleeping car passengers who originally had reservations for No. 3 on 7/15 which was cancelled. (We never did learn if those...

There is some precedent here. On our 2023 trip, we were among a large number of coach passengers with guaranteed connections who missed Capitol Limited No. 30 in Chicago due to the late arrival of Southwest Chief No. 3. All of us were put up in a hotel for the night and then sent out on the next...

This link in a different thread was most enlightening: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/lack-of-equipment-leads-to-cancellation-of-southwest-chief-round-trip/

We came close to being in this situation on our 2023 trip while we were in Toledo, expecting to catch Capitol Limited No. 29 to Chicago where we were to catch SWC No. 3 to LA. At 3:00 a.m. we got a “changes to your trip” message saying that No. 29 had been cancelled due to “mechanical issues.”...

Were the people who had sleeping car reservations on #3 for the 15th (which was cancelled) in fact, re-booked onto those two extra sleepers? If so, than my feelings of goodwill towards Amtrak have been renewed. Those feelings will become even stronger if two extra sleepers are added to...

If this happened to us, rather than requesting a full refund, we’d call Customer Relations and have them reschedule our trip to some future date when we could be sure of obtaining bedrooms to Chicago and back and on dates that work for us. This probably would be months into the future. One...

This cancellation leads us to believe that there are no extra train sets available for the SWC at this time. (Because No. 3 was cancelled in Chicago on the 15th, no No. 3 train arrived at LAX today and there was apparently no train set available for the No. 4 train, which was to depart today...

A very nice 1:48 die cast scale replica of a Glacier Park Tour Bus was once available commercially. You still see them occasionally on eBay.

The White Model 706 Tour Bus was developed for sightseeing in western national parks. Between 1936 and 1940, 35 of these buses were purchased for use in Glacier National Park in Montana, where many of them are still in service today. (At one time, the park had a Model 706 which had not been...

Today’s (7-15) SWC No. 3 was cancelled due to “equipment issues.” Does anyone know how far in advance passengers were informed of this cancellation?

If this attitude ever becomes widespread, those who don't have smart phones will be out of luck. (This is why we always travel with multiple hard copies of our e-tickets distributed among our various carry-on bags.)

I'll second that!! I've now bookmarked it and plan to use it daily to keep up on what's happening.