Passenger Trains > Zephyr Has Finally Left Chicago

Train departed 9:30 pm tonight instead of scheduled 2:00 pm.  Arrival times at stations   are "unknown."
I guess bad weather and some mechanical problems may have caused the delay. 

There was a derailment on the BNSF in Iowa. #5 was supposed to detour via the UP Chicago-Omaha today. Perhaps they held it for the tracks to be restored?
Edited to add, maybe not. I see on Transit Docs that 5 apparently went west on the UP.

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8pm for denver thurs?

how could it arrive in Cedar Rapids at 5 PM if it left Chicago at 10 PM
 

At one point it still had an ETA for Naperville even as it was on the C&NW.

Now 10 hrs late at Omaha.



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Railfan2 Wrote:
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> how could it arrive in Cedar Rapids at 5 PM if it
> left Chicago at 10 PM
>  

It's only 19 hours. Even AMTK should be able to make it in that.

TAW

From the Durham Museum(former Omaha Union Station) saw westbound Zephyr depart about 945AM.  Passengers get a rare daylight westbound view of Nebraska.  Sorry folks! " Nebraska! Its not for Everyone" (our state tourism ad campaign)

Mexrail 

mexrail Wrote:
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> From the Durham Museum(former Omaha Union Station)
> saw westbound Zephyr depart about 945AM. 
> Passengers get a rare daylight westbound view of
> Nebraska.  Sorry folks! " Nebraska! Its not for
> Everyone" (our state tourism ad campaign)
>
> Mexrail 

I heard stories on driving I80 through there, flat as a pancacke and I know the trucks are hauling butt thtrough there!

Departed Denver at 7:20 PM MST, 11:15 late.

Question for AMTK insiders here: any insight as to why the huge delay leaving Chicago? Equipment? BNSF optimism re getting the wreck cleared? Amtrak indecision about rerouting? UP traffic (down considerably compared to the last few years, along with almost every else, but hey, profits are UP!), finding a suitable locomotive and crew, etc.? Something else, combinations? Whatever, hard to believe it took 10 HOURS when the likely necessity of a reroute was known well before train time!

Train #6 came into Denver at 6:05 p.m., 33 minutes early.  Did anyone get photos of the two of them side by side?

Jim Barton