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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by os Ottawa I recently made a round trip to Texas from Chicago on the Eagle. I understand the Desoto Sub is no longer the UP's main southbound route from St Louis so the track has numerous slow orders. Since this portion of the trip is in the dead of night I was unable to determine our speed. We were well over an hour late into Little Rock but thanks to a padded schedule we arrived on time into Ft Worth. The return trip was made on a "Sunset day" so train 22 was 4 hours late departing Ft Worth. I was told this is a normal occurance on the days the train connects with number 2. We remained 4 hours off schedule all the way to Chicago. This time the trip over the Desoto Sub was in daylight and we crawled along in some spots. We were delayed before arrival in St Louis due to freight cross traffic. I was told by an Amtrak employee in Chicago that Amtrak and the UP had recently reached some sort of agreement where the UP would cooperate a bit more with Amtrak. While in Ft Worth I visited the BNSF control center and one of the huge screens in front of all of the dispatchers monitered Amtrak on time percentages and incentives. [/quote] I believe it is common for the northbound Eagle to be more late than the southbound Eagle for the exact reason you memtioned. From Chicago and south Amtrak doesn't have to wait for another passenger train arrival. At least they didn't, I don't know if the Missouri Mule comes into play here or not. (Maybe someone can tell us.) When having to wait on the Sunset Limited the Eagle becomes late. I watch the Amtrak web site occasionally and check to see if the Little Rock trains are running on time or not. I have seen them make up some of the time lost but I bet it is very hard to make it all up. (Again, maybe someone can add to this.) I sincerely hope that UP is really going to be more friendly toward Amtrak. If they are then it makes me wonder what UP wants in return. Ottawa, please sir, can you add to your last statement about the control center and the on time percentages and incentives. This is interesting and could be very important. Please elaborate on it as much as you can. Thank you for doing so.[:)]
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