Does anyone know what on earth caused all this mayhem in the first place? I can understand a nine or ten hour delay over UP and CSX tracks, but 35 hours? That's insane.
As for 1 (13) being cancelled, our crew got word of that during the evening of July 12 as we were so late. Also they expected to have to replace the transition sleeper, the one missing sleeper, the lounge (freezer problems), and a coach (bad a/c), plus do something about the baggage car with blown out HEP cables. Oh, and engine #70 which was fouled up.
It is utterly pathetic at this point.
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As of the last report at 10:10 PM, at Alpine, TX, it was running 34 hours and 46 minutes late.
On the bright side (if you can call it a bright side), it's actually been making up time since Del Rio, TX. It was 2109 minutes late at Del Rio, but only 2047 minutes late at El Paso. Yahoo!
It is absolutely pathetic at this point. More updates later as #1 continues westward.
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As of the last report at 10:09 AM, at Deming, NM, it was running 43 hours and 4 minutes late.
Train Status for #1 scheduled into Tucson today:
"Due to a service disruption, we are unable to provide estimated times of departure and arrival."
I hope you folks in Tucson and LA will be at the stations to greet the Sunset Limited on this historic event. Has an Amtrak train ever been this late? Was the next train annulled so as not to pass the train that was 2 days late? Does UP have Bermuda Triangle envy? Does this mean 45+ hours overtime for the crew on one trip?
I sure hope there is someone out there to give us a trip report. Wow!
Added to the message later that same day....
See also my post about UP dropping intermodal traffic on the LA-Seattle corridor. http://www.railforum.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000409.html
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As of the last report at 3:47 AM, at Palm Springs-Rail Sta., CA, it was running 48 hours and 25 minutes late.
I am very curious to know what happened - most of the delay was definitely in UP hands. I'm been tracking #1, and it's lost huge chunks of time between certain stations:
New Orleans-Schriever,LA: 7 hours lost
Lake Charles,LA-Beaumont,TX: 7 hours lost
San Antonio-Del Rio,TX: 8 hours lost
El Paso,TX-Deming,NM: 9 hours lost
What happened!?
If there is all to great a possibility that a train is going to "stock out" of both Dining and Snack Bar food and beverage items, that the "puffers" will be going "off the wall' because they can't have their "fix", that the potties go "off duty' account their retention tanks cannot dump from a standing train, that some passenger has some "private stock firewater" and has a bit too much, if there were too great the possibility that the journey would include an overnight bustitution (reported on another board: 4 of the 11 WB trips during June were terminated short of LA), then I would say "late trains are great trains" becomes a "non-operative".
Also, note my avoidance of any discussion of possible on-board HVAC 'breakdown".
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Arrived 49 hours and 25 minutes late.
Yikes.
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Trust Jesus,Ride Amtrak.
As of a few moments ago, the Train Status feature at the website reports 1(15) is some seven hours down. Presently being near Del Rio, I would say it was most definitely within the UP Twilight Zone.
Something tells me that the PV crowd would be less than happy about being bustituted for any portion of their journey.
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Originally posted by espeefoamer:
The Pacific Railroad Society's newsletter,Wheel Clicks,lists on time reports for Amtrak trains. For two months running the report for the Sunset was:Trains operated,26.Trains late,26.On time percentage,0%.
Yeah, the Sunset hasn't been on time for a while. I remember I was reading the punctuality reports for March & April and the Sunset had 0% on-time. Has the Sunset been on time AT ALL this whole year? Somehow I doubt it.
According to the website, 1(15) was reported 7'30" down at Maricopa.
Enjoy the view of the Salton Sea, folks. It is kind of "sport" to know that you are below sea level - I think that is the only piece of rail (around Indio) where that claim can be made (other possibility would be somewhere around New Orleans - Corridor and Florida, above; albeit not much).
Lastly, Mr. Briz; if your surname is Brizzolara and you had relatives with the NYC (father, grandfather), I would be happy to hear from you. Simply giggle my screenname and you'll find an e-mail address.
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I'm holding deluxe sleeper tickets for train #1 connecting with #14 in September. I'm also holding Southwest Airlines tickets to LA and hotel reservations to assure that the start of my vacation doesn't get $crewed UP.
I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times in the last couple of months that the Sunset Limited had made that connection. Sad, ain't it? 
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Originally posted by snake:
Todays Sunset Limited arrived at LA's Union Station a more normal 9+ hours late today.
I was transferring from the Red Line to the Gold Line at Union Station at about 1:00 on Sunday afternoon, looked over at the arrivals board, and noticed that the Sunset was scheduled to arrive at 3:00, "only" about six hours late. Guess it must have lost some more time trying to make the final stretch run into L.A.
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