Passenger Trains > today's #29 Is Already Late

Departed Washington on time at 4:05 pm
Left Rockville 6:55 pm instead of scheduled 4:29 pm
ETA Cumberland 9:52 pm(2 hrs., 38 mins. late)
ETA Pittsburgh 1:51 am(2 hr., 03 mins. late)

Auto accident, fire near tracks (hopefully not) or some other reason ?

Amtrak Train 29(12) crapped out, almost right out of the station.

Several MARC trains on the Brunswick Line were delayed behind it and had to be routed
around it. In its bulletins, MARC was specific that it was Amtrak 29 that broke down
and blocked the line.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/13 20:58 by GenePoon.

Thanks for the explanation for the delay

As of a few minutes ago Amtrak train status has estimated
the following arrival times

Pittsburgh 2:19 am (2 hrs., 31 mins. late)
Cleveland 5:03 am (2 hrs., 10 mins. late.
Maybe some early risers can see both the Capitol
and the Lake Shore at Cleveland

Toledo 6:47 am (1 hr., 39 mins. late)
Chicago 9:44 am ( 59 mins. late)

It will be interesting to see how realistic these estimated arrival
times are

# 29 arrived Cleveland 5:21 am (2 hrs. 40 mins. late)
( #48 arrived Cleveland 5:31 am OT)
# 29 at Elyria 5:49 am (2 hrs., 20 mins. late)

Estimated arrival times are now...
Toledo 6:59 am (1 hr., 51 mins. late)
Chicago 9:56 am (1 hr., 11 mins. late)

Amtrak 29 didn't crap out at all, it ran past a red stop signal leaving DC, that's the real reason. 2&1/2 hour delay.

Explain this to me: if a train runs past a red signal, how does the engineer know he or she has done this, other than having a major disaster? It seems that if the engineer had seen the red signal in the first place, he or she would have stopped, and it strains credulity for an engineer to say "Oh, I ran a red signal a while back."

Big brother knows... time to 'fess up. Vacation time for the crew, recrew time. I should think that failure to 'fess up would (not could) result in termination.

calzephyr48 Wrote:
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> Big brother knows... time to 'fess up. Vacation
> time for the crew, recrew time. I should think
> that failure to 'fess up would (not could) result
> in termination.

But if you didn't know you did it---and why would you do it in the first place if you knew you did it?

amanwtf Wrote:
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> Amtrak 29 didn't crap out at all, it ran past a
> red stop signal leaving DC, that's the real
> reason. 2&1/2 hour delay.



Why did the Crew ran past a red stop signal just starting out in few miles from D.C.?

amanwtf Wrote:
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> Amtrak 29 didn't crap out at all, it ran past a
> red stop signal leaving DC, that's the real
> reason. 2&1/2 hour delay.

Notice I didn't say it broke down...don't like to actually SAY a crew violated
the rules, as the actual findings from the investigation may be different.

# 29 arrived Chicago 10:07 am instead of scheduled 8:45 am

# 49 arrived Chicago 9:22 am instead of scheduled 9:45 am

Someone was wondering how and why 49 got ahead of 29
I assume it was a result of 49 being in Cleveland at 3:48 am
whereas 29 was not there until around 5:20 am(2 hrs., 25 mins. late)