Western Railroad Discussion > now no amtrak for 16 states

right now(currently) there are 16 states with no amtrak trains, maybe more



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/17/20 10:29 by dan.

Yeah, we get it.  Tri-weekly service on Amtrak long-distance trains sucks.  But a minute-by-minute count of which states have an Amtrak train in them doesn't do much.  If every long-distance train was still daily, how many states wouldn't have an Amtrak train right now?  Many states only have an Amtrak train in them for a few hours each day, like Idaho for example.  Nebraska would only have them at night for the most part.

Or Barstow where the conductor gets off and says, "Why'd we stop here", some nights the principal passenger
traffic is BNSF deadheads.

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callum_out Wrote:
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> Or Barstow where the conductor gets off and says,
> "Why'd we stop here", some nights the principal
> passenger
> traffic is BNSF deadheads.
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Maybe they would get more passengers if they were more reliable.
Bill Pyper
Lacey, WA
 

callum_out Wrote:
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> Or Barstow where the conductor gets off and says,
> "Why'd we stop here", some nights the principal
> passenger
> traffic is BNSF deadheads.
>
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that descibes the pioneer , except old pass riders were the backbone

Poor Amtrak, the other night they were 15 miles out from Flagstaff, bit late when an EB loses an air hose West of the
depot. By the time the DS quit running around the EB, Amtrak limped in nearly 4 hours late. Took them about 2 1/2 hours
to change out the air hose. Now the report, at least on the Souithwest Chief, is that rooms/roometes are all sold out,
coach is nearly sold out and ATK doesn't want to increase consist size. Somewhere in a MAD magazine issue this all
makes sense. 

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BNSF6400 Wrote:
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> Yeah, we get it.  Tri-weekly service on Amtrak
> long-distance trains sucks.  But a
> minute-by-minute count of which states have an
> Amtrak train in them doesn't do much.  If every
> long-distance train was still daily, how many
> states wouldn't have an Amtrak train right now? 
> Many states only have an Amtrak train in them for
> a few hours each day, like Idaho for example. 
> Nebraska would only have them at night for the
> most part.

You and I need to have a beer some time... ;-p 

Right on!!!

Mike Derrick
 

The senators from Hawaii are holding on line 1...

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The senators from Hawaii are too busy trying to explain the some hundred million cost overruns on the Honolulu 
light rail system.

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now 18 , but 4 to 6 would have had trains in them in september

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> The senators from Hawaii are too busy trying to
> explain the some hundred million cost overruns on
> the Honolulu 
> light rail system.
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It's no worse then many other transit projects.
Can you say "Big Dig"?

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> > The senators from Hawaii are too busy trying to
> > explain the some hundred million cost overruns
> on
> > the Honolulu 
> > light rail system.
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> It's no worse then many other transit projects.
> Can you say "Big Dig"?

The Boston Central Artery project was primarily a highway project, not a transit project.

 

RuleG Wrote:
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> > > The senators from Hawaii are too busy trying
> to
> > > explain the some hundred million cost
> overruns
> > on
> > > the Honolulu 
> > > light rail system.
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> > It's no worse then many other transit projects.
> > Can you say "Big Dig"?
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> The Boston Central Artery project was primarily a
> highway project, not a transit project.
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But still a financial embarrassment....

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callum_out Wrote:
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> Poor Amtrak, the other night they were 15 miles
> out from Flagstaff, bit late when an EB loses an
> air hose West of the
> depot. By the time the DS quit running around the
> EB, Amtrak limped in nearly 4 hours late. Took
> them about 2 1/2 hours
> to change out the air hose. Now the report, at
> least on the Souithwest Chief, is that
> rooms/roometes are all sold out,
> coach is nearly sold out and ATK doesn't want to
> increase consist size. Somewhere in a MAD
> magazine issue this all
> makes sense. 
>
> Out 

DS10 that night should've sent the freight and no.3  instead because if there weren't any other westbounds, 3 does his station stop and is on his way and things would've been a lot easier, I bet the Amtrak Crew died no thanks to what actually happened and who knows when the busted air hose on that auto rack was fixed!

> > It's no worse then many other transit projects.   Can you say "Big Dig"?
>
> The Boston Central Artery project was primarily a highway project, not a transit project.


As a certain Randal O'Toole would say there is never anything wrong with a highway project, only transit.

Brian

Now that's being too blind!

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