Amtrak SUCKS. I took it ONCE thinking it would be fun after visiting family in Los Angeles and take it back home to Oregon while I was living there. It took 48 hours which would have been a 12 hour drive. The engine broke down several times. There were HOURS just waiting on spur lines for cargo trains to pass. The bathrooms ran out of water. There was no food left in the galley. And the final insult was the engine broke down AGAIN just across the Oregon border and we had to walk to the highway where shuttle busses took us the rest of the way.
Garbage organization.
Assuming it was going to stop in Jacksonville, the train station there is on the extreme north side of town, so the way I figure it, from where it stopped to the station couldn’t be another 10 miles of track.
Thinking about it, I suspect the “we need a new engineer” story is complete BS.
bttt