Passenger Trains > Daylight run on the Kootenai Sub for No. 8 today

The EB not departing Spokane until 9 am (at least) today. Passengers will have beautiful scenery normally tranversed at night.

BB

#28 finally went by Cheney at 8:48am and is going to stop at Lakeside Jct to get a crew off #27 before heading to Spokane. #28 is 9 hours late now, and #27 is going to be 6 hours late. Some good daylight runs!

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Amtrak #8 is now lined up to leave the Spokane Depot as of 10:33am.
 

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Looks like dinner on Marias. Departed Spokane at 10:48.

BB



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/18 11:00 by bmarti7.

 #8 just went past Parkwater, WA at 11am

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

Departed Sandpoint 9:48 down.
BB

Why the hold up?  Dense freight traffic?

Noticed Saturday's 27 lost a lot of time west of Pasco.

Stan

sagehen Wrote:
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> Why the hold up?  Dense freight traffic?
>
> Noticed Saturday's 27 lost a lot of time west of
> Pasco.
>
> Stan

Well first of all #27 and #7 lost a lot of time into Portland and Seattle due to a failed Amtrak unit; the Portland train had a BNSF leader.  This caused the departure of #28 and #8 out of those cities to be several hours late, then #28 was apparently further delayed by a failed drawbar on a freight before arriving in Spokane as per this thread:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,4593927