Coast Starlight 24 hrs late this seek?

[Chino]

According the website http://www.4rr.com/top_001.htm the Coast Starlight arrived 24 hours late into Emeryville on Feb. 16, 17 and 19. I am booked on the Coast Starlight March 1 and if it is anywhere near that late into Emeryville I will not only miss my hotel reservations (and still have to pay for them) but I will also miss my connecting train that leaves at 8:10am on March 2. Does anyone know if that lateness is true and what might have caused it?

Thanks.

 

[AlanB]

Well from looking at the timings to compare the days you say it was late, you have to be coming south on the Coast Starlight. And unless you are south of Sacramento, you've got bigger problems than a late train. The Coast Starlight isn't running north of Sacramento at this time, and it is not expected to be running north of Sacramento till at least April by everyone's best guess. A land slide took out the Union Pacific tracks that Amtrak runs on up in Oregon.

Now, Amtrak has just announed that they plan to start running a bus bridge between Portland and Sacramento, but that's a very long overnight ride on a bus.

Ps. I'm not even sure how that website is getting arrival times, I guess that they are just doing Sacramento to Emeryville, but maybe that has something to do with the odd reporting times. The system may be getting confused by the dates, since normally the CS runs overnight from Seattle, whereas right now it is originating in Sacramento.

 

[Green Maned Lion]

Actually, see, the thing is the CS has been running outrageously early since the second day. Since the computer has been programmed to assume it was late...

If you are south of SAC, the CS should suit you just fine/

 

[Eris]

According the train status on amtrak.com, the #11 (southbound, from Sacramento) on February 16 was supposed to arrive into Emeryville at 8:10am and arrived at 8:13am, while the #14 (northbound, from Los Angeles) was scheduled to arrive at 10:02pm and instead arrived at 9:56pm. I feel confident that that northbound train was not a day late.

It is kind of funny that http://www.amtradelays.com can't handle the idea of an early coast starlight, though it *has happened* in the history of the starlight, even when it's making its full Seattle-Los Angeles run.

 

[GG-1]

It is kind of funny that http://www.amtradelays.com can't handle the idea of an early coast starlight, though it *has happened* in the history of the starlight, even when it's making its full Seattle-Los Angeles run.

Aloha

I was on the CS once when it was about on time at Tacoma from LA, and even (Shock) the Sunset Limited from Orlando was almost on time, 1 hour lost in California last day

 

[Green Maned Lion]

AmtrakDelays.com has this annoying thing of recording early as 0, and leaving the math to myself on the rare event that I use it, rather than Amtrak's website, for my statistics.

 

[Chino]

Thanks, all! I understand. I'm going north from L.A. to Emeryville.