[atc23]

There’s a website which tracks Amtrak trains for timeliness - check it out, Amtrak is always off schedule by many hours. It’s the federal government attempt to get into the transport business - EPIC FAIL

[rktman]

Where's moose O leaney when ya need him? 🚂🚅⏰

[Vince Ferrer]

There’s a website which tracks Amtrak trains for timeliness - check it out, Amtrak is always off schedule by many hours. It’s 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.

[Vigilanteman]

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.