The National Timetable at Trainweb update (effective February 29, 2004) is now up on Trainweb. I will have the Amtrak services mentioned in the February 15 newsletter posted to the website before the end of the month.Highlights include a new PDF News section, the introduction of MBTA Commuter Service routes serving Amtrak Trains, and a separate bus index page dedicated to non-Amtrak Subsidized bus connections.
I will also be posting a new Silver Service timetable (which consolidates the four separatate Silver Star and Silver Meteor pages into two) and consolidates the meteor and star folders into one single folder called silver.
The Los Angeles Pacific Surfliner Schedules will also be consolidated into one schedule with shading indicating Friday through Sunday and Monday through Thursday trains. Weekday and Daily trains remain in blue type on a white background, as has always been the case.
For the Daylight Savings Time update in March, all of the irregular times will have their winter panel times (Arizona and E. Indiana) merged so that there is one panel (just additional rows will be added). ON the Texas Eagle panel, trains 321 and 322 (CHI-STL) and 821 (OKC-FTW) will now be on one combined southbound schedule, trains 22, 322, and 822 will be on another.
Trains #421 (though linked twice) will only be displayed once, on the Sunset Limited card, since it is a section that is common to both the Sunset and the Eagle), and train #422 will also be only displayed on the Sunset Card.
The Browning, Montana schedule line for the Builder's Winter schedule (essentially, the winter schedule is identical to the summer schedule with that one exception) will move onto the Summer Panel for both trains (the space will be created for that entry.)
The Capitol Limited and Southwest Chief Folders will be consolidated since both trains essentially utilize the same consist. The schedule for train #30 will be the right panel (currently, this is the Winter Schedule.)
The Hoosier State will move onto the Cardinal schedule, as the right-side panel.
On the Builder schedule, the local train will move onto the seattle pages. This will eliminate the local division of the Builder and Eagle and the hoosier division.
The necessary schedule index revisions and tabular calibrations will be made to reflect these changes.
These changes are being conducted to make room for the full-fledged re-introduction of Caltrain back to the Trainweb site.
A separate folder set-aside for Baby Bullet Service has been created.
Coaster Weekday service schedule consolidation could occur with this update if information is available before I close up the news room on Monday, March 1, 2004.
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Peter Van Warnerski