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From the TRAINS newswire 6-29-06: <br /> <br />http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/006/756zyeij.asp <br /> <br />"<b>Tuesday’s eastbound Amtrak California Zephyr: an odyssey</b> <br /> <br />CHICAGO – If you were going to meet someone today at Chicago Union Station traveling on Amtrak’s eastbound train 6, the California Zephyr that left Emeryville, Calif. (in the San Francisco Bay area), on Tuesday, June 27, you would have been well-advised — as with many Amtrak transcontinental trains in the summer — to contact Amtrak ahead of time regarding the train’s schedule-keeping. The Zephyr has been late routinely in recent weeks, but this train’s odyssey went beyond “routinely late.” The train operates on Union Pacific between Emeryville and Denver, and on BNSF Railway between Denver and Chicago. <br /> <br />According to Amtrak, the train departed Emeryville only 5 minutes late, at 9:20 a.m. on Tuesday, but then, while still in California, lost over six hours between Colfax, about 130 miles into its run, and Truckee, 52 miles farther east and still on the west side of the Sierra Nevada. <br /> <br />According to sources, the Zephyr was following an eastbound UP freight train on the ascent of Donner Pass where it encountered its first delay, of 5 hours and 25 minutes, when the freight train ahead set off a trackside defect detector at Gold Run. <b>While waiting, the Zephyr’s engineer went over his Federally set maximum allowed hours of continuous service, and Amtrak requested a UP pilot engineer. The expected pilot engineer turned out to be unavailable, and train 6 had to wait for a substitute Amtrak engineer to arrive from Sacramento. </b> <br /> <br />(snip) <br /> <br />Isn't it true that crews going dead out in Timbukto somewhere is one of the biggest causes of train delays? The team engineer concept would at least alleviate this one cause of train delays. <br />
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