Passenger Trains > Both Crescents close to OT and Silver Meteor 98 8.5 hrs late

Different train status this morningt that we are used to.  Understand that thunderstorms in FL resutled in severe delays to #98 between Winter Park and Sanford that resulted in traiin needed to be recrewed.  Both Crescents are running close enough to schedule that they might make their destinations On Time.
Andy

98 was running around a 1 hour late when it got just south of the old Sanford Station when it had to sit for 6 hours way they removed a power line that fell across the tracks and they all so had to do the recrew as you sad.

And of course that fallen power line is Amtrak's fault, right?

Lots of people on this site blame Amtrak for everything, so why not an act of Mother Nature?

Local news said lightning struck a power pole and dropped a power line over the tracks just north of Orlando, resulting in the signals, gate controls and so forth being "fried."  One rail joint they showed appeared melted.  Really messed up SunRail.  All crossings were flagged and trains moved at a crawl until this morning.  Funny, impact on Amtrak was never mentioned in the TV news stories I saw, altho the usual "the conductor had to drive the trains very slowly at each crossing" was heard.  Gotta love that.