Passenger Trains > Cardinal follies last night

* Train 50 of 07/29/2014.
* THIS TRAIN EXPERIENCED A SERVICE DISRUPTION.
* Cardinal
* +---------------- Station code
* | +----------- Schedule Arrival Day
* | | +-------- Schedule Arrival time
* | | | +----- Schedule Departure Day
* | | | | +-- Schedule Departure Time
* | | | | | +------------- Actual Arrival Time
* | | | | | | +------- Actual Departure Time
* | | | | | | | +- Comments
* V V V V V V V V
* CHI * * 1 545P * 548P Departed: 3 minutes late.
* DYE * * 1 658P * 712P Departed: 14 minutes late.
* REN * * 1 749P * 809P Departed: 20 minutes late.
* LAF * * 1 1000P * 1233A Departed: 2 hours and 33 minutes late.
* CRF * * 1 1030P * 111A Departed: 2 hours and 41 minutes late.
* IND 1 1150P 1 1159P 254A 322A Departed: 3 hours and 23 minutes late.

* CIN 2 317A 2 327A 629A 644A Departed: 3 hours and 17 minutes late.

* CHW * * 2 820A * 1147A Departed: 3 hours and 27 minutes late.

Departed Chicago with crew having inadequate Hours of Service to reach Indianapolis.

Sat at Lafayette waiting for dogcatch...which was stuck on I-65 behind a jackknifed
semi with hazmat load. Unable to recrew train for two hours.

This is by far better than having a fresh crew on board in Chicago.

Q642 was ahead of the Cardinal by 30 minutes through McCoysburg and #50 had to follow the train into Lafayette yard. Now the dispatcher could have put Q642 into the siding at Monon, but why do that. Q642 usually follows Amtrak, even when they are running 2 hours late out of Chicago, but it's been weird the few days out here.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/30/14 10:27 by ep75.

That's hardly relevant since they sat in Lafayette for a crew for nearly 2 hours.

ep75 Wrote:
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> Q642 was ahead of the Cardinal by 30 minutes
> through McCoysburg and #50 had to follow the train
> into Lafayette yard. Now the dispatcher could have
> put Q642 into the siding at Monon, but why do
> that. Q642 usually follows Amtrak, even when they
> are running 2 hours late out of Chicago, but it's
> been weird the few days out here.

So your saying that if the Cardinal didn't have to follow the freight, it couldn't recrew down the line further? Got into Lafayette 54 minutes late.

Love that brilliant freight couldnt have delayed a passenger train deduction at work here...

ep75 Wrote:
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> So your saying that if the Cardinal didn't have to
> follow the freight, it couldn't recrew down the
> line further? Got into Lafayette 54 minutes late.


Right. The job is set up to recrew at Lafayette. A daily recrew goes on duty and drives to Lafayette. It was en route that the recrew got stuck. It's not a new thing, so no, the freight made no difference.

KV1guy Wrote:
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> Love that brilliant freight couldnt have delayed a
> passenger train deduction at work here...

Is it possible that the freight train would not have fit in the siding at Monon without blocking road crossings? Since the switches are hand throw switches, perhaps it was quicker to keep the freight train moving than have it stop and hand line switches. Just a thought.

West pass at Monon was blocked. Once Q642 got by Surrey Siding the die was cast. Cardinal had to follow Q642 to Lafayette. The Monon badly needs additional sidings.

The former Monon needs a wee bit of track work as well, especially north of Lafayette. Last time I rode the line it felt like we were airborne at the TP&W crossing!

timecruncher

Now CSX has the ore trains to deal with. 51 lost an additional 2+ hours today waiting on 500-30 at West Pass.

Is this "500" a K500 or something? Because at first I thought 500 might be a typo for 50.