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Date: 10/17/12 13:51
Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: 4400horsepower

Late getting out of the gate?

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Date: 10/17/12 14:01
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: amanwtf

#5 estimated to leave Chicago in the 3 hour late range. 2 sleepers plus 2 diners went belly up before lunch today causing all the problems.

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Date: 10/17/12 14:05
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: GenePoon

Went belly-up, or nobody started working on them until too late?

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Date: 10/17/12 14:08
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: cashfare

BINGO! Chicago maintenance is above even Boardman and not accountable to anyone.

GenePoon Wrote:
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> Went belly-up, or nobody started working on them
> until too late?

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Date: 10/17/12 13:52
Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: 4400horsepower

Must be having problems.

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Date: 10/17/12 15:57
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: amanwtf

That's right, big ones all with car replacements.

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Date: 10/17/12 16:00
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: amanwtf

Finally departed Chicago 3hours and 47minutes late.

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Date: 10/17/12 19:19
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: Steve4031

Wish I was on it. It's working on a day light run between salt Lake City and Winnemucca. I would like to see that some day.

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Date: 10/17/12 19:36
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: WAF

Steve4031 Wrote:
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> Wish I was on it. It's working on a day light run
> between salt Lake City and Winnemucca. I would
> like to see that some day.

Nothing to see but sagebrush and alkali. That's why it runs at night

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Date: 10/17/12 21:44
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: GenePoon

That country has its own kind of beauty. For the railroader, Arnold's Loop in eastern Nevada
is a seldom-seen feature of the old Western Pacific. It's not really a loop like Tehachapi or
Williams Loops, but a long hairpin that is not really all that far from Interstate 80; however
the only time I've SEEN it was from an eight-hour late Amtrak #5; every other time, it was
dark and I was asleep.

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Date: 10/18/12 08:33
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: WAF

Dog bone curve

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Date: 10/18/12 13:18
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: Chessie1963

At the rate this thing is getting across the plains, it may see the area west of Salt Lake City in daylight all right--on Saturday! Over 7 hours late and not yet to Denver.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/18/12 13:19 by goxmit.

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Date: 10/18/12 13:46
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: Steve4031

And I'm stuck at work. Damn.

Posted from iPhone

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Date: 10/18/12 14:36
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: chakk

Departed Denver today at 14:36 -- 6.5 hours late. Because of schedule padding, the train expects to pick up 30 minutes to Grand Junction, and another hour of pickup to Salt Lake, and another 30 minutes to Elko, NV. So, passage through Arnold's Loop may be around dawn Friday morning. And perhaps only 3 hours late on arrival at end of line in Emeryville, CA.

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Date: 10/19/12 08:51
Re: Whats up with #5 (17)
Author: The_Chief_Way

2 hours east of DEN due to high wind warnings
also a medical delay in Galesburg

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