Amtrak 50 (23) Service Disruption

[Big Iron]

The Cardinal is shown 8:28 min late and has been sitting West of Cincy for quite some time. Anybody know what happened?

 

[philk]

Stuck behind a nearly 2-mile-long CSX freight with three broken knuckles, I'm advised.

 

[Big Iron]

Thanks!

 

[Big Iron]

It's on the move now.

 

[Lonestar648]

Hope there is a friendly dispatcher in the holiday spirit to get 50 around so maybe it can make a little of that lost time up.

 

[Acela150]

Stuck behind a nearly 2-mile-long CSX freight with three broken knuckles, I'm advised.

Prescision Railroading fails. This isn’t the first time that a 2 mile train had multiple broken knucks.

Hope there is a friendly dispatcher in the holiday spirit to get 50 around so maybe it can make a little of that lost time up.

Not likely going to make up much of that 8 and a Half hours.

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[jis]

Hope the EHH insanity finds a resting plane in peace with EHH before it manages to drag all of CSX to the same place with itself. [emoji57]

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[Acela150]

Currently 10 Hours and 39 Minutes down out of Anderson, WV.

 

[Anderson]

Alderson, WV? Or have I suddenly become a train station?

 

[Acela150]

Alderson, WV? Or have I suddenly become a train station?

Auto Correct on my MacBook.. I hate it. I once sent a very important email and Auto Correct screwed up.

 

[Anderson]

Stuck behind a nearly 2-mile-long CSX freight with three broken knuckles, I'm advised.

Prescision Railroading fails. This isn’t the first time that a 2 mile train had multiple broken knucks.

Hope there is a friendly dispatcher in the holiday spirit to get 50 around so maybe it can make a little of that lost time up.

Not likely going to make up much of that 8 and a Half hours.

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On "Precision Railroading", the general idea isn't flawed...it's when the idea is, in turn, coupled with overstretched maintenance budgets and the like that you have a problem. Some of ATSF's old operations could run on a very tight and reliable timetable, but that's because they were also coupled with the presence of some mix of a properly-funded maintenance budget, spare equipment, and presumably crews that weren't likely to die on hours.

 

[the_traveler]

Well, it could be worse. You could have become a bus station!

 

[Acela150]

Well, it could be worse. You could have become a bus station!

Oh my.

 

[Acela150]

Just looked at ASM to see how the rest of the trip panned out for her. Station stops after Wilmington aren't displayed. Departed WIL about 630am.

 

[Bob Dylan]

Well, it could be worse. You could have become a bus station!

Or CEO of Amtrak!

 

[jis]

That may not be a bad thing [emoji6]

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[Steve4031]

I’m not qualified for ceo of Amtrak. But it would beat my current job. I would be out on the road checking operations and service quality though.[emoji41]

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[chakk]

You can turn off autocorrect on mac books. Google will tell you how

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