Sam1I rode the Eagle from Temple to Dallas and back last week. And I rode it the week before as well.
Glad to see you back on here!
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Sam1 If Amtrak could convince the TRE to allow the Eagle to use its right-of-way regularly, as opposed to the UP line between Dallas and Fort Worth, it could eliminate the backing into and out of the FITC, which is a relatively complicated procedure.
If Amtrak could convince the TRE to allow the Eagle to use its right-of-way regularly, as opposed to the UP line between Dallas and Fort Worth, it could eliminate the backing into and out of the FITC, which is a relatively complicated procedure.
I believe TRE was deterred when Amtrak required TRE to take full responsibility for any Amtrak derailment on their line.
I am also curious as to how they are turning the consist. Are they wyeing in Dallas and having a TRE pilot loco from Dallas to Fort Worth?
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BNSFandSP Sam1 If Amtrak could convince the TRE to allow the Eagle to use its right-of-way regularly, as opposed to the UP line between Dallas and Fort Worth, it could eliminate the backing into and out of the FITC, which is a relatively complicated procedure. I am also curious as to how they are turning the consist. Are they wyeing in Dallas and having a TRE pilot loco from Dallas to Fort Worth?
The Texas Eagle is back on the UP between Dallas and Fort Worth, which means that Number 21 has to back into Fort Worth whilst Number 22 has to back out of the station.
For the two months that the Eagle ran on the TRE, it ran through from Dallas to Fort Worth. The Amtrak P42 was the only power that I observed on the trip that I made.
The equipment lay overnight in Fort Worth. The locomotives where turned, but as I remember it, the train was not. So the sleepers were on the front of the train into Fort Worth, but they were on the back of the train when returning to Chicago.
Sometimes one cannot win for losing. This is sort of an update of Texas Eagle service disruptions, although it does not have anything to do with Tower 55. Nevertheless, I chose to post it to this thread as opposed to opening a new one.
I took #21 to San Antonio for Thanksgiving and returned this morning on #22. Going south the train had its normal consist of a transition sleeper, a regular sleeper, a dining car, a lounge car, and three coaches. Returning today it had an extra coach and two private cars on the back, giving it a total of ten cars.
From New Braunfels to Austin, as well as most of the way from Austin to Taylor, the train crawled along at 30 mph. As a result we were more than 45 minutes late getting to Austin and more than an hour late getting into Taylor. The train is now shown as being nearly 2 1/2 hours late into Fort Worth. I assumed it was a slow freight train running ahead of us. Nope!
The conductor told me that the train was running 30 mph in many areas because of numerous slow orders on the UP. He said that the issue is likely to impact the Eagle for months. I am don't know the veracity of his information, but he seemed to know what he was talking about.
Anyone planning to ride the Eagle between Fort Worth and San Antonio in the next couple of months, at least, should plan on being late.
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