The Chief
Lead Service Attendant
Was it a cold dinner?
California Zephyr re-routing around Wendover?
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cpotisch
Engineer
Probably not. I imagine they either went with AmStew or ordered food to the train. Either way, hot meal.
lyke99
Service Attendant
I was on that train. I do not know what coach passengers were served, but I can tell you everyone was provided meals for each of the three meals that occurred after the scheduled arrival on Saturday 7/7. For sleeping car passengers the meals were as follows:
Dinner in Fort Morgan while awaiting crew was the regular dinner menu minus salad and dessert.
Breakfast the next morning was a doughnut or bagel served with yogurt, grapes, and a clementine.
Lunch was an Angus burger or veggie burger patty served with roasted potatoes.
The on-board service staff did an awesome job in a difficult situation. There were only a few passengers who lost their cool about the situation. Sure the extreme delay was frustrating, but losing one's cool didn't get a crew there any faster.
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The Wendover routing requires crossing two mountain ranges — one at the Flower Tunnel and one at Silver Zone Pass. With only one operating engine, the CZ might stall — taking the Lucin Cutoff via Ogden would be the safer course. I’ve done it twice on the CZ when trackwork required the detour.
KmH
Engineer
So far I haven't been sufficiently lucky to experience the Wyoming detour or the Lucin cutoff.
If the train is on time, the Lucin cutoff is traversed in the dark.
If the train is on time, the Lucin cutoff is traversed in the dark.
Tennessee Traveler
Conductor
I've been lucky enough to have traveled the Wyoming detour. It was definitely not a cutoff as freight traffic was also routed through Wyoming and my Zephyr left Salt Lake City on time and arrived Denver AFTER MIDNIGHT instead of the 6 PM hour so approximately 5-6 hours late. I was detraining in Denver so made me very late checking into my hotel in Denver.
neroden
Engineer
My Wyoming detour trip arrived early. It is actually a faster route if you don't get delayed by freight traffic.
KmH
Engineer
Yep. The Wyoming to Ogden detour uses UP's Overland Route, one of UP's primary routes for freight.
So freight traffic can make the CZ late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Route_(Union_Pacific_Railroad)#Ogden_to_San_Francisco_(via_the_Central_Pacific/Southern_Pacific)
So freight traffic can make the CZ late.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overland_Route_(Union_Pacific_Railroad)#Ogden_to_San_Francisco_(via_the_Central_Pacific/Southern_Pacific)
