Passenger Trains > Train 14 still in hold status 2.19 pm

So far we have had 3 or now
4 Metolink inbound trains
pass us as we wait . The
dispatcher must be harried
with the extra trains all
running for the Dodgers
game today . There must be
a lot of disappointed fans
on those trains . Same here
with us being so late on
the reroute !!

Al

Posted from Android

Hey Al
I don't envy you.
We rode 14 yesterday and arrived Oakland at 12:36 am this morning.

Sounds like your pushing 2:30am or 3:00am tomorrow morning.

Question
Are you staying in Oakland or going beyond.
We lost our reservation yesterday/ this morning. We were stranded and walked .6 miles to another hotel and paid 189 dollars. Jack London Inn cancelled it with out communicating with us, just a no at 1:00am.
Heads up call the hotel and communicate.
We got late yesterday at Bakersfield with the crew not being there on time, sat for over an hour.
Got shut down with a UP south bound near Tipton who struck a vehicle, over an hour before they ran the UP through and we could go.
The Wye was at 45 minutes.
Good time speaking with friends on board and see old faces.

Looks like 11 is really messed up. We got the San Joaquin out at 7:36am and traded in the 11 reservation thank god.
Chris Parker
San Pedro, Ca

Posted from Android

Extra Metrolink trains are for LA Rams NFL football game today, vs. New Orleans Saints.

You didn’t miss much by not being able to stay at the Jack London Inn. Unless it has undergone a massive renovation recently, it has deteriorated to something just above a “pay by the hour” hotel. Back in the late 80’s, I stayed there a lot while working on Shoreline Amphitheatre. Yes, that was a haul driving to Mountain View but it was great sitting poolside with a couple of beers watching the action, after a long day deliberating with Bill Graham.

BB in Spokane

Posted from iPhone

Quite a weekend for me. I rode yesterday’s 14 to Chico for 11 back.

Both trains nice and late.

Posted from iPhone

Chris , returning home to
SF. Flew down to LA to join
a buddy on 14 this a.m. He
pulled the pin so I just
went off as planned .

I guess BFD in 75 minutes
or so ?

We are crawling up the
grade now by the cement
plant .Passed a BN going
along next to us .

Sorry you folks had such a
bad experience with hotels .

Thank you for sharing your
tales of riding 14 and then
11 today .Appreciate the
information .

Safe travels to you folks !

Cheers

Al

Posted from Android

14 through Cable at 5:05 p.m.

14 through Tehachapi coming up the to cable cam now.

Posted from iPhone



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Chris , Thank you 4 your posts . Sorry about hotel
problems . I live in SF.
so am returning home .

Just passing another train .

Safe travels to you folks !

Al.

Posted from Android

bbethmann Wrote:
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> You didn’t miss much by not being able to stay at the Jack London Inn. Unless it has undergone a massive renovation recently, it has deteriorated
> to something just above a “pay by the hour” hotel. Back in the late 80’s, I stayed there a lot while working on Shoreline Amphitheatre. Yes,
> that was a haul driving to Mountain View but it was great sitting poolside with a couple of beers watching the action, after a long day deliberating
> with Bill Graham.
>
> BB in Spokane
>
> Posted from iPhone

Great  to hear the name Bill Graham – aka Uncle Bobo to a certain audience (and he was NOT happy about that “birthday present”!).  He was a challenging individual, but one had to be to navigate the music scene out of the 60s into the 80s and build what he did.  He was a great ringmaster for a very long, strange trip; wanting the venues to support the music. And handing out breakfast in the morning after a loooonnnng show at Winterland or Kaiser, he could be downright charming. The long declines of the SP and WP empires from the Bay Area weren’t the only great things we lost as the years wore on.

Bruce