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[quote user="UPReading85"]Has anyone noticed a strikingly poor on time on time perfomance for just about every Amtrak route over the 1st week?? ... The CZ was 3 hours late out in Sacramento when the run from Emeryville is only about an hour or so. The Coast Starlight was over six hours late once this year. Is it just bad luck or has something happened to cause this rash of abominable service to start the new year?[/quote]According to www.amtrakdelays.com the Starlight and Zephyr incidents you refer to occurred on January 4 & 5 when a monster storm blew through central California. It made a mess everywhere, not just with the trains. It was the biggest storm we've seen in several years.  Here on the coast we were listening to the police scanner all day and there were reports of either trees or power lines going down every three to five minutes for over six hours! Wind gusts in our neighborhood exceeded 50 mph, and in higher elevations approached hurricane force at 75 mph. My wife says she heard there had been a mudslide on the UP somewhere between Emeryville and Martinez. It's double track in there so it probably only blocked one of them or nothing would have gotten through. I hear through the grapevine that the westbound Zephyr waited out the worst of the storm in Reno for a few hours before taking on the Donner Pass crossing. Since this is winter, weather delays may have affected the other trains around the country as well.
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