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Passenger Trains > Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13Date: 01/11/19 10:02 Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: SteveThorpe Anyone know why?
Posted from Android Date: 01/11/19 10:26 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: 79mph Supposed to be another horrible life-threatening blizzard.
When they quit paying the weather bureau people, bad weather results. Date: 01/11/19 10:38 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: bluesboyst 79mph Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Supposed to be another horrible life-threatening > blizzard. > When they quit paying the weather bureau people, > bad weather results. Quick get the milk and bread.. We are all going to die.... Date: 01/11/19 11:11 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: 79mph Airlines are waiving ticket change surcharges.
So you know "Winter Storm Gia" is going to be a b--ch. Government offices will be shut down (oops, already are). Date: 01/11/19 11:19 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: mundo [b]â[/b] @AmtrakNECAlerts SERVICE ADVISORY: Due to impending weather Train 50 departing Chicago (CHI) on 1/12 will terminate in Indianapolis (IND) and Train 51 departing New York on 1/13 will originate in Indianapolis. No alternate transportation will be provided between New York and Indianapolis.Â
Date: 01/11/19 11:24 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: MEKoch What a sad sad commentary this Amtrak policy is on railroading. I expect the next thing will be to cancel most of the trains on snowy days - ALL winter because "it is cold."
Date: 01/11/19 11:33 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: Lackawanna484 Do the host railroads plan to operate normally?
Posted from Android Date: 01/11/19 11:38 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: glendale Lackawanna484 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Do the host railroads plan to operate normally? > > Posted from Android It has nothing with the ability of Amtrak to run the trains. It has everything to do with the litigious we live in (boarding/unboarding/stations). Date: 01/11/19 11:40 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: Lackawanna484 glendale Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Lackawanna484 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Do the host railroads plan to operate normally? > > > > Posted from Android > > It has nothing with the ability of Amtrak to run > the trains. It has everything to do with > the litigious we live in > (boarding/unboarding/stations). Thanks. I know that sometimes the host railroads will ask ATK to suspend operations in threatening weather. NS did that with the Roanoke service a few weeks ago. Date: 01/11/19 12:34 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: DevalDragon Lackawanna484 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Do the host railroads plan to operate normally? Of course they plan to. Unfortunately reality gets in the way... Date: 01/11/19 15:53 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: PC1974 Hunter's Precision Railroading made it to Amtrak... The short term cuts including cancelations make the bottom numbers look better today. To H___ with tomorrow.
Precision Railroading = Railroading On The Cheap Date: 01/11/19 20:22 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: Duna 79mph Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Supposed to be another horrible life-threatening > blizzard. > When they quit paying the weather bureau people, > bad weather results. Local Springfield news saying "Storm of the Century". Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/11/19 20:28 by Duna. Date: 01/11/19 20:48 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: jp1822 St. Louis, downstate Illinois - they are looking at two feet or more of snow. The Cardinal route has ice and snow being predicted. Not sure if I am seeing TONS of snow along the Cardinal's route, but time will tell.
Date: 01/12/19 01:42 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: SP4360 Do any of you experts ever think that the possibilty of power outages, trees down across tracks, people and crews not being able to get to stations and any number of weather related issues have anything to do with cancellation of trains? It's not like it used to be where there were section gangs every 10 miles to keep the railroad. Now it's 1 gang per 50 miles. If power is off and signal batteries go flat, who wants to be on a train flagging signals for miles. Frozen switches, you want to climb out and dig them out? Didn't think so. You might want to take that all weather transportation, the airplane. Oh wait......................
Date: 01/12/19 18:17 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: tq-07fan Greyhound is operating regular schedules in the same region as the Cardinal shutdown tomorrow. Anymore Amtrak truly is Novelty Transportation.
Jim Date: 01/12/19 18:20 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: wabash2800 ROTFLMBO! A coworker said that a study shows the most items bought in such a situation are beer and pop tarts. (I don't don't know if I believe the study.)
Victor A. Baird http://www.erstwhilepublications.com bluesboyst Wrote: > Quick get the milk and bread.. We are all going to > die.... Date: 01/12/19 19:31 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: Lackawanna484 wabash2800 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > ROTFLMBO! A coworker said that a study shows the > most items bought in such a situation are beer and > pop tarts. (I don't don't know if I believe the > study.) > > Victor A. Baird > http://www.erstwhilepublications.com > > bluesboyst Wrote: > > Quick get the milk and bread.. We are all going > to > > die.... Beer and pulled pork Date: 01/12/19 21:06 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: AKYtrainNut I woke up Saturday morning expecting inches of snow in my driveway, I was hoping to try out my new snowblower>>>>>NOTHING! AKY, Ashland was barren! About 9am we had some scattered flurries and then a misty nuisance rain all day, that was it.
Date: 01/13/19 12:44 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: 79mph Vienna sausages in the little cans.
Yum. Date: 01/15/19 15:11 Re: Train #51 cancelled Sunday 1/13 Author: andersonb109 If VIA Rail followed this example, they would never run any trains in Winter in Canada. -40 on the prairie's isn't at all unusual this time of year. And why the hell do winter "storms" even have names? Anything under 10" isn't much of a storm, much less one that deserves a name.
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