acelafan
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Ditto on that.
Status of Amtrak Status Maps - dixielandsoftware
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Well, ASM is still not quite prime time ready for Amtrak-Lite.
Amtrak.com went down this afternoon (9/20/2016) and they now have Amtrak-Lite running. ASM gathers the data correctly from Amtrak-Lite, but doesn't parse it correctly. I think I've captured enough data to make the corrections, but hopefully Amtrak.com will be up and running before too long.
jb
Thanks for all you do John, it's great!
9/29/2016 2.37 P.M. EDT ASM is seemingly running very slowly. The trouble is that Amtrak.com status is itself struggling.
jb
jb
10/3/2016 9.47 p.m. EDT ASM has been down all afternoon. The trouble was a bad AT&T nameserver. After I discovered that, I specified a good one. System is recovering now.
jb
jb
On Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, something happened to Amtrak's tracking system. Many of the trains were not showing up on their Track-A-Train map, nor were the times being posted on their reservations system. That, of course, affects both Better Track-A-Train and Amtrak Status Maps.
Things were better yesterday, the 16th.
To my eye, looks like today things are acting up again.
jb
Things were better yesterday, the 16th.
To my eye, looks like today things are acting up again.
jb
At about 9.30 p.m. EST on 2/21/2017, the web hosting company for Amtrak Status Maps (dixielandsoftware.net, statusmaps.com) started experiencing server failures. That is making it difficult to get to Amtrak Status Maps. Tech Support is aware of and working on the problem. No estimated up time.
jb
jb
George K
Conductor
Thanks for the update.
And, of course, thanks for all your efforts.
And, of course, thanks for all your efforts.
10/8/2018 7.47 a.m. Amtrak has changed its website(s). That has disabled Amtrak Status Maps. I'm working on it.
jb
jb
ChuckL
Service Attendant
interesting. I can't get a connection to Amtrak with their own iPhone app using iOS 10. Worked fine before the website change. Anyone else experiencing this as well? The app just starts up and crashes.
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George K
Conductor
Thanks for all your efforts. ASM is the "go-to" site for me.
It's Sunday morning. That's when we're most likely to notice issues after they do maintenance/updates during the night - Sunday mornings being the usual day, I believe, for doing these. 3 years ago this weekend the system was having issues most if not all day....just as some of us were heading out to the gathering.
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Seems to be working fine now. Might have had something to do with the introduction of the new amtrak.com web site.
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fixj
Service Attendant
I'm getting a blank map with just the routes on it. No trains. The Canadian portion is working.
ASM has not worked right for me on Chrome 61.0.3163.100 with Mac 10.12.6 for several days. I see the routes and I see the trains on the map, but clicking on a train number does nothing, no station-by-station OTP on the left, no little popup box right by the train number.
I'm going to try to disable extensions (I have about 7 extensions running) one at a time to see if one of those is causing the issue. It is working fine on Safari and Firefox.
Edit to add: Found it - I was using Tampermonkey for a couple of scripts and disabling it instantly solved the ASM issue.
I'm going to try to disable extensions (I have about 7 extensions running) one at a time to see if one of those is causing the issue. It is working fine on Safari and Firefox.
Edit to add: Found it - I was using Tampermonkey for a couple of scripts and disabling it instantly solved the ASM issue.
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I'm curious which scripts were the problem...if it's not too hard to find out, can you let me know?
Right now Amtrak Status Maps (ASM) is having a very hard time getting information from Amtrak.com, which is running very slooooowly. The result is that it looks like ASM is not working, but it is.
jb
jb
We use FireFox and there still seem to be some bugs in the Train Status feature. We couldn't get information on No. 3 into LAX. Also, we had to manually reset the date to today's date. (It kept showing yesterday's date.)
Eric & Pat
Eric & Pat
Ryan
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Not for me either. I wasn't using iOS, I am on a Macbook.
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Unfortunately I don't know as I simply disabled the entire Tampermonkey extension. I didn't disable scripts one by one.
On 8/27/2018 Amtrak has made an "invisible" change to the Amtrak.com train status queries. This is causing trouble for Amtrak Status Maps, et al, which is limping along as best it can.
I'll keep you posted.
jb
I'll keep you posted.
jb
