Passenger Trains > Carolinian 79(15) SNAFU

STATE OF GOOD REPAIR:

79(15) with AMTK 151 crapped out at Selma NC

It sat from 444pm until 812pm, moved a few miles and stopped again
for an hour or so. It finally made Raleigh at 1120pm (vs. scheduled
520pm). The bedraggled train limped into Charlotte at 231am (vs.
scheduled 844pm), by which time just about everybody had had it
with Amtrak. Railfans who say, "The more time on the train, the
better" are excluded.

80(16) initial terminal departure was 2 hr 42 min late account
mandatory crew rest. It had the AMTK 20, set out from the southbound
Crescent.

If this keeps up, maybe NC will demand placing their own loco on the train south of DC, and charge Amtrak for the mileage in Virginia.

NCDOT had tweeted that night that a rescue engine was dispatched from Raleigh. I heard it was a frozen axle on the Amtrak P42. Also, 91 was delayed 2 hrs 30 mins because it was stuck behind 79.