To: US Navy Vet
Theres a website which tracks Amtrak trains for timeliness - check it out, Amtrak is always off schedule by many hours. Its the federal government attempt to get into the transport business - EPIC FAIL
9 posted on
06/16/2018 5:30:48 PM PDT by
atc23
To: atc23
Where's moose O leaney when ya need him? 🚂🚅⏰
25 posted on
06/16/2018 5:49:43 PM PDT by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: atc23
Theres a website which tracks Amtrak trains for timeliness - check it out, Amtrak is always off schedule by many hours. Its the federal government attempt to get into the transport business - EPIC FAIL
In the U.S., freight rail has the right of way, and Amtrak is at the mercy of the freight trains.
To: atc23
We spent a couple of hours parked 30 or so miles on a siding outside Minot, N.D. on the way home from New Year's vacation back in the 1980s. The Amtrak employees told us they had to lease the tracks and get someone from Burlington Northern to come and move the train blocking the track up ahead before our journey could continue.
The food was decent and the accommodations were nice even with small children. They had booked us in a handicapped room with fold out bunks for the kids, a shower and an almost queen size bed on the bottom where my wife and I could not only sleep comfortably but engage in fairly vigorous marital activity while the children were asleep above. The motion of the train was an added bonus to enhance said activity as was the noise of the train motion which gave us an extra layer of privacy. Fun times until the train stopped!!
In addition to the stop near Minot, there were a number of other such stops with lesser delays as if BN was reminding Amtrak who owned the lines.
61 posted on
06/16/2018 7:11:29 PM PDT by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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