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Passenger Trains > Coast Starlight WoesDate: 09/26/16 15:20 Coast Starlight Woes Author: The_Chief_Way You wouldn't know it from looking at the transidocs display, but there was trouble.
The rear two coaches of No.11 were derailed in a yard accident in Seattle, and blocked the rest of the train. So, a spare Talgo set protected No.11's schedule to Portland ( PDX ) and passengers were to transfer to No.14's equipment after it arrived and they shooed all the people off onto the waiting Talgo train, which will protect No.14's schedule to SEA ( That's Seattle ). Date: 09/26/16 15:35 Re: Coast Starlight Woes Author: ross At least Amtrak was smart enough to come up with a quick "replacement" plan!
Date: 09/26/16 15:59 Re: Coast Starlight Woes Author: lamta_jay Saw the Talgo set pass Tukwila on my shift today
I figured there was a problem of some kind Thanks for the Info Jay AM Station Agent for Sound Transit-Tukwila Date: 09/26/16 17:53 Re: Coast Starlight Woes Author: ProAmtrak Hope they got 11s coaches back on the track though and made sure they were ready to go for tomorrow, anyone know how that happened in the 1ST Place?
Date: 09/26/16 18:10 Re: Coast Starlight Woes Author: ExSPCondr Borrowing something else unforseen, tomorrow they will have TWO train sets for #11, so it looks like a deadhead set of power and cars?
G Date: 09/26/16 19:07 Re: Coast Starlight Woes Author: Railrev ExSPCondr Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Borrowing something else unforseen, tomorrow they > will have TWO train sets for #11, so it looks like > a deadhead set of power and cars? > G According to what I read in this thread, one Coast Starlight set turned in Portland and went south from Portland while the Talgo set went back to Seattle. Only the derailed Starlight set is in Seattle. Date: 09/26/16 19:25 Re: Coast Starlight Woes Author: The_Chief_Way I believe that is correct.
Date: 09/27/16 02:54 Re: Coast Starlight Woes Author: GP25 How many Spare sets of Talgo do they have in SEA?
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