George K
Conductor
Once again, thanks for your work on an irreplaceable resource!
Status of Amtrak Status Maps - dixielandsoftware
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Not having much luck this time. I'm having trouble figuring out how to work with the changes Amtrak made.
Have to face the possibility that I might not be able to solve the problem.
jb
acelafan
Conductor
It might not be trivial but I think we can get it working again. Just need some time and maybe a little luck.
Finally fixed it. Unfortunately, Amtrak made the change right at the beginning of my vacation, so it took longer than usual.
A big thank you goes to Train2104 and acelafan for coming up with the solution and guiding my efforts.
jb
Just noticed that over the past few days, both ASM and Dixieland have had a hard time tracking train 448 when it leaves Albany.
I don't know what's been going on over the last few days, but the information from Amtrak (which is where we get our data) is a bit sketchy. For example, Amtrak's tracker shows the train to be in Albany while it's status page shows it to be east of Springfield, and no time was posted for Pittsfield.
jb
Thanks for the information, that was the assumption I had based on sketchy data from Amtraks track a train page these last few days. Thanks so much for these resources by the way, they are incredibly well made!
Just thought I'd mention that Hurricane Florence is making a beeline for us. We're supposed to get 30'' of rain because the thing is supposed to stall. Although we have a full house generator, so power is not a problem, our cable/internet service might go down. If that happens, the following will suffer a "Service Disruption":
Amtrak Status Maps
ASM Alerts
Station Status Boards
jb
Amtrak Status Maps
ASM Alerts
Station Status Boards
jb
Mystic River Dragon
Engineer
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Best of luck to you--we will be thinking of you and everyone else in the hurricane's path.
Rail Freak
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Hunker Down & Good Luck!!! 1 year ago, I was in the same situation!!!
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acelafan
Conductor
448 is tracking now - thanks for pointing that out. (I didn't fix it, but a little birdy I know at Amtrak must have.)
For the last four days the servers have been experiencing network problems. This causes trouble in various ways. I'm working on it, but my time to do so is limited until Monday, 4/1/2019.
jb
jb
The web hosting company is recycling my account because of some maintenance they did. I have to turn off any updates for up to 4 hours.
jb
jb
Well, that didn't work. I've restarted the updates. The system will take a couple of hours to get caught up to where things were working very poorly, yesterday. Have to contact support again this afternoon.
jb
jb
Well, finally, after a week (at least), things seems to be running normally.
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jb
west point
Engineer
John" Why are the off route detours not showing ? ? ?
On may maps (dixielandsoftware) it's not possible to show off-route detours.
I link to asm.transitdocs.com which does show them, usually. An occasion where they might not would be if a freight company's engine is in the lead and the Amtrak engine isn't reporting the train's location.
jb
I link to asm.transitdocs.com which does show them, usually. An occasion where they might not would be if a freight company's engine is in the lead and the Amtrak engine isn't reporting the train's location.
jb
I need to do some work on the system this afternoon. That'll take down the following starting at 1:15 p.m. EST for about 3 hours:
Amtrak Status Maps (will remain static during this time period)
ASM Alerts (will not send Alerts during this time period)
Station Status Boards (will remain static during this time period)
jb
Amtrak Status Maps (will remain static during this time period)
ASM Alerts (will not send Alerts during this time period)
Station Status Boards (will remain static during this time period)
jb
yarrow
Engineer
thanks for all your work,john
April 29, 2020. It looks like it's that time again. Amtrak is rolling out an updated version of their website and that is knocking Amtrak Status Maps, et al, offline. It'll take a day or two to get it going again (probably).
jb
jb
greatwestern
Service Attendant
Back working again - I have missed it over the last few days. My wife uses it to track my progress when I am on Amtrak (and Via).
Unfortunately looks like I will myself be tracking the trip I should have been on in early June from here in the UK due to the travel restrictions from UK to USA that are in place.
Unfortunately looks like I will myself be tracking the trip I should have been on in early June from here in the UK due to the travel restrictions from UK to USA that are in place.
I used the Amtrak Status Maps a lot to check the progress of the trains my kids took coming home from grad school. (My son would take the Saluki up from law school in Carbondale, IL, and my daughter would take the Lincoln Service from Chicago to come home from library school in one of the near suburbs.)
May 3, 2020.
It looks like Amtrak has finally rolled out the changes after experimenting with them for a week or so. I'm keeping my fingers crossed since they haven't broken ASM (yet). However, I did notice that if you ask for the times of the trains from their status tab on Amtrak.com, they give the wrong times. Julie, ASM and transitdocs are all giving the right times.
jb
As of noon on October 23, 2020, Amtrak Status Maps is running very slowly because the information is coming back very slowly from Amtrak, for whatever reason.
jb
jb
tricia
Conductor
Thanks for the update.
