This is exactly it. I keep protein bars, sugar-free Gatorade, and water rolled up in a winter-rated sleeping bag and then wrap a blanket around the sleeping bag. I also have a shovel and a small container of salt that works in frigid temps.
Probably why Hybrids are your best bet where there's a risk of extreme weather stranding you on the Road.
Not for 40 hours though.
We've become so soft. I'm sure the members of the Donner Party would have been happy to have Dinty Moore and Diet Coke for 40 days!
I wonder if that was part of the problem?
I think crew timing out and being out of position is the bigger problem in this specific case. Of course the folk sat Daily Mail are unlikely to have deeper knowledge of railway operations in the US in the context of sparse network operated by Amtrak.
) which among other thing involves cutting down staff. Unfortunately that very act makes the system more fragile. And then when things go wrong they go really wrong and it is much harder to recover. We are seeing one of those instances in Virginia.
It was something minor and as I understand it, not a passenger train. But still they were down to single track operation for a while around the area of the derailment. Read about it on another board. But it was way minor compared to the big mess already unfolding. Some of the pure NEC (i.e. trains not going South of Washington DC) cancellation were caused by that apparently. Amtrak had put up a separate notification about those trains without stating any cause AFAIR.
It's 2 full consists separated by a baggage car. Wonder if half of the train was just an equipment move?
It’s the Meteor & the Crescent.
