I check the website http://asm.transitdocs.com/ to see how Amtrak trains are doing routinely and not that sometimes, a train may have a big delay > 2 hr. The display has a black symbol for these trains. The symbol is red for trains over 30 min (Short hual) 0r 1 hr (Long haul). Case in point, today, train #22 is showing as 8 hr, 56 min late at Poplar Bluff after leaving SAS on time and then being 6 hr, 52 min late at Austin, then at TXA, it was 9 hr, 14 min late. Also #21 left St. Louis OT but by Little Rock was 3 hr late.
I suspect that it could be due to the weather (rain & flooding that TX is having).My curiosity makes me ask if there is a website where these delays are posted with causes.
I think that might be more traffic than flooding. I don't see a whole lot of flooding North of Dallas. We have had some rain but it should be mostly cleared by now.
Electroliner 1935 I check the website http://asm.transitdocs.com/ to see how Amtrak trains are doing routinely and not that sometimes, a train may have a big delay > 2 hr. The display has a black symbol for these trains. The symbol is red for trains over 30 min (Short hual) 0r 1 hr (Long haul). Case in point, today, train #22 is showing as 8 hr, 56 min late at Poplar Bluff after leaving SAS on time and then being 6 hr, 52 min late at Austin, then at TXA, it was 9 hr, 14 min late. Also #21 left St. Louis OT but by Little Rock was 3 hr late. I suspect that it could be due to the weather (rain & flooding that TX is having).My curiosity makes me ask if there is a website where these delays are posted with causes.
According to a contact at Amtrak, Number 22 did not leave San Antonio on April 30th. Buses were substituted for the train, although Amtrak's Train Status showed that the train arrived in Temple, TX at 5:45 p.m. on April 30th.
From Temple to Arkadelphia Train Status indicated that the status of the Eagle was unavailable. It showed that Number 22 arrived in Hope, AR at 6:29 a.m., more than nine hours late.
According to my contact, Number 21 was turned a Poplar Bluff and sent back to Chicago as Number 22.
On May 1st Number 22 departed San Antonio on-time and arrived in Fort Worth on-time. The only way for that to have happened would have been to annul the train on Saturday, as I was told, and use the equipment for Sunday's Number 22.
The problem, as you noted, was severe flooding in east Texas according to the news media.
Rio Grande Valley, CFI,CFII
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