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Weather affects trains,and other transit. Is this news? The last time I took a train in Canada we got to Montreal 24 HOURS late because a storm had blown out all the electrical signals causing them all to go to "stop" mode. These things happen. It''s called travel.
Getting anywhere on Amtrak on time is an adventure. Some of it is their fault, most often it is not. Often they are at the mercy of whichever railroad owns the tracks they are using. A few years back I rode Amtrak from Reno to Denver. We went all of a quarter mile before having to stop and wait a couple hours for a track thru the freight yards to become available for Amtrak's use. That same trip the weather was so bad at one point the tracks were actually under water and we had to creep along at 5mph. We were so far behind that 30 miles before we got to Salt Lake City, the crew timed out and shut down the train. We sat on the tracks for an hour waiting for a replacement crew to arrive and take us the rest of the way to SLC.
Other than the DC to Boston run, using Amtrak on a tight schedule is a serious dice roll. When we plan cross country trips (DC to the west coast), we always allow at least one overnight stopover midway as part of our plans.
No surprise there. Stuff gets late when their is weather. I flew from Miami-Barcelona with a stop in Boston and London i was delayed 5 hours in Boston and 8 hours in London I arrived to my destination 14 hours late I did not complain to anyone it happens.
i rember in 2002 we h ad to sit on the track for six or more hours becasue they were workin on the tracks they wouldn not let us by
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