Passenger Trains > #5 (3-12)

I wonder if they are planning on annulling #5 tomorrow. It's #6 equipment is 20 hours late and has not even made it to Denver. #5 does not appear among the list of tomorrow's departing trains on the Chicago departure board. 

OnTime Wrote:
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> I wonder if they are planning on annulling #5
> tomorrow. It's #6 equipment is 20 hours late and
> has not even made it to Denver. #5 does not appear
> among the list of tomorrow's departing trains on
> the Chicago departure board. 

Yup

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Train #5 out of Chicago is cancelled tomorrow, Sunday, March 12th.
THUS 
Train #6 out of Emeryville is cancelled Wednesday, March 15th since there's no equipment to do the turnaround.  

If the Capitol Ltd had a normal consist, train 29 could have made up train 5, and the 20 hour late train 6 becomes train 30. True ?
If no equipment in Emeryville, they couldn't turn back at Reno ? 

joemvcnj Wrote:
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> If the Capitol Ltd had a normal consist, train 29
> could have made up train 5, and the 20 hour late
> train 6 becomes train 30. True ?

Actually this is False.


> If no equipment in Emeryville, they couldn't turn
> back at Reno ? 

Not sure if Reno has facilities to service and provision a train like Emeryville.

With #6 now 29 hous late now, not just 20, it could not be made same day 30. 

ChicagoCoyote Wrote:
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> joemvcnj Wrote:
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> > If the Capitol Ltd had a normal consist, train
> 29
> > could have made up train 5, and the 20 hour
> late
> > train 6 becomes train 30. True ?
>
> Actually this is False.
>
>
> > If no equipment in Emeryville, they couldn't
> turn
> > back at Reno ? 
>
> Not sure if Reno has facilities to service and
> provision a train like Emeryville.

It's been done at Chicago with Capitol Limited train set as a run-through. And Train #5 has turned at Reno to to become an ontime #6. Don't ask me how provisioning EXACTLY gets done, but they've done it when even having to turn the Empire Builder at Whitefish, MT for days......