Passenger Trains > Amtrak 14 very late

Amtrak 14 thru Redding at 11:30 am today, nice trip up thru Shasta country in the light.

Thanks to a rogue truck driver who just HAD to block the tracks with his big rig, which was demolished.

Pretty much keeping time since leaving SAC - ~8 hrs down out of EUG. Just the standard CA industrial farmland demo derby.. . 

phils wrote ---
"Just the standard CA industrial farmland demo derby.. . "

Not this time.  According to a passenger who was on this
train when it hit the trailer -- that trailer was a refrigerated.
trailer, not the usual and expected ag trailer.  And the crossing
had full gated protection now.  NO excuse for the driver to
let his tralier foul the RR tracks.  The engineer was injured by
flying glass from the broken locomotive windshield.  I have no
other info on his condition.  The truck driver was uninjured.
Guess all too many people just don't know - there MUST be
enough room on the other side of all grade crossings for their
entire vehicle to lear the tracks BEGORE they start across
the tracks.

I was on that trip all the way to Portland.  It was great to see Dunsmuir and that area in the daylight for a change plus
they diverted thru the Roseville UP yard for some different scenery.  Eventhough the train was VERY late, the entire
crew did their best to make it as comfortable a trip as possible.  As for the "wayward driver" well he should be fired
with no exceptions allowed and his company heavily fined for employing a representative with such poor judgement.