Just heard about the collision between two UP coal trains near Plainview. Amtrak are apparently routing around it - does that mean via Cheyenne/Ogden or somewhere else? I'm supposed to be on it on Sunday and Monday and would like to know whether it will be back to its normal route by then but Amtrak's website doesn't mention this at all. Do you know where such information would be? I can't phone Amtrak as I'm not in the USA.
Thanks
Geoff M.
Posted by denver bob (Member # 1664) on :
quote:Originally posted by geoffm: Just heard about the collision between two UP coal trains near Plainview. Amtrak are apparently routing around it - does that mean via Cheyenne/Ogden or somewhere else? I'm supposed to be on it on Sunday and Monday and would like to know whether it will be back to its normal route by then but Amtrak's website doesn't mention this at all. Do you know where such information would be? I can't phone Amtrak as I'm not in the USA.
Thanks
Geoff M.
Posted by denver bob (Member # 1664) on :
quote:Originally posted by geoffm: Just heard about the collision between two UP coal trains near Plainview. Amtrak are apparently routing around it - does that mean via Cheyenne/Ogden or somewhere else? I'm supposed to be on it on Sunday and Monday and would like to know whether it will be back to its normal route by then but Amtrak's website doesn't mention this at all. Do you know where such information would be? I can't phone Amtrak as I'm not in the USA.
Thanks
Geoff M.
I came in this morning on # 5 and passengers that were traveling between Denver and Provo, Utah would be riding a bus between those two points as # 5 was going through Wyoming to Salt Lake City, but I see that # 6 was traveling the normal route tonight so the derailment may have been repaired. The newspaper in Denver indicated that normal schedule would resume later today.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
Thanks!
Geoff M.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
Just came up to Glenwood Springs by bus, so it's clearly not open yet. Darn agents at Denver didn't even feel it appropriate to mention a bus when checking in, else I would have gone to Salt Lake via Wyoming had I time to change my ticket!
Geoff M.
Posted by Geoff Mayo (Member # 153) on :
Well, I'd been told fibbies by the staff at Denver. The nice lady at Glenwood Springs said that the Plainview area was shut between 7am and 7pm while they were fixing the tracks. That meant that the WB had to be rerouted, which indeed it was on 25 May. However, the EB was running normally (Denver said it wasn't and didn't know when it would be) and had been for a day or two, since it is scheduled through Plainview around 6ish anyway, it just got delayed a little.
However, by the 26th both the siding and the mainline were back in full use, albeit with a slow order, as evidenced by us on the EB Zephyr passing the WB (late) at Radium and a WB BNSF sitting in the siding at Plainview while we rolled slowly past. Some of the wrecked cars were piled up to one side - hell of a mess, lucky nobody was hurt.