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Was the four late due to a late arrival of 7? and turning the train?

Ed Burns

Train #8 of March 28th, is estimated to be 4.5 hours late into Whitefish, MT. It left Seattle 4 hours and 16 minutes late due to a late turn of inbound equipment. Empire Builders at Seattle and Portland do a same day turn at train #7 had problems at Wenatchee, WA yesterday. Typically late trains get later, but being its going into the weekend, hopefully train #8/28 (28) can make up some time, but so far, not really the case. If given a green on the road and not too much freight interference across Montana to get to Minot, ND, they have a "chance" to make-up time. Lot of padding in the Empire Builder's schedule, but that can still be eaten up when out of the time slot. 

jp1822 Wrote:
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> Train #8 of March 28th, is estimated to be 4.5
> hours late into Whitefish, MT. It left Seattle 4
> hours and 16 minutes late due to a late turn of
> inbound equipment. Empire Builders at Seattle and
> Portland do a same day turn at train #7 had
> problems at Wenatchee, WA yesterday. Typically
> late trains get later, but being its going into
> the weekend, hopefully train #8/28 (28) can make
> up some time, but so far, not really the case. If
> given a green on the road and not too much freight
> interference across Montana to get to Minot, ND,
> they have a "chance" to make-up time. Lot of
> padding in the Empire Builder's schedule, but that
> can still be eaten up when out of the time slot. 


Weekend? What's a Weekend to the railroad other than locals... we run plenty then lol

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NPEDDIE Wrote:
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> Was the four late due to a late arrival of 7? and
> turning the train?
>
> Ed Burns

Yes, late turn of equipment. 307 and the BNSF leader had to be dropped and replaced with P42 29 too.