http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Amtrak-Train-Delayed-81008957.html
A story on weather delaying the California Zephyr is the above story. Where in Nebraska was this photograph taken?
Victrola1 http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Amtrak-Train-Delayed-81008957.html.( activated link) A story on weather delaying the California Zephyr runs with the above story. Where in Nebraska was this photograph taken?
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/Amtrak-Train-Delayed-81008957.html.(
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A story on weather delaying the California Zephyr runs with the above story. Where in Nebraska was this photograph taken?
Check this link posted 1-8-10 "A Zypher's Tale" Li nked here: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/166648.aspx
Didn't you hear? BNSF put all of its Nebraska track under wire last week, and Amtrak is now running Acela service between Omaha and Lincoln. LOL
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Good catch ! Media critics, take note. I suppose someone in the news dept. at this station thinks it's OK to play 'mix and match' with the facts and illustrations whenever they like. The snow in that photo is minimal, and so I'd be surprised if the Acela train shown was very late, if it was even late at all. But why should they let a little thing like the actual facts get in the way of sensationalizing an anti-Amtrak story . . . as another news provider's credibility drops towards the same single digits as the thermometer was reading then . . .
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Most say they will never take Amtrak again.
Yet if they were stuck in an airport for 24 hours, after being stuck in a plane on the ramp for 4 hours, they probably wouldn't hesitate to fly again....
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It was not a photo of streamlined steam bucking drifts to get the 20th Century Limited into Buffalo. At least they keep their stock updated, if not accurate.
The story makes it seem like Amtrak was on their own stuck in a snow drift in the middle of Nebraska (nowhere). Anybody have any idea what the BNSF was doing to help / fix the situation? How about running a plow or snow blower and having the passenger train follow?
CC
I remember one winter day in Toronto Union Station, probably about 1980, when the arrivals board showed five (5) transcontinental trains arriving from Vancouver that day. At the time there was a daily single train service on both the CN (Super Continental) and CP (The Canadian) routes, so normally two trains would arrive each day. The odd number was because that day's Super Continental was itself a day late and expected tomorrow.
Extreme winter weather on the Prairies was to blame, but whether it was blizzards or bitter cold freezing the steam lines, or both, is lost from my memory now.
John
Chris30 The story makes it seem like Amtrak was on their own stuck in a snow drift in the middle of Nebraska (nowhere). Anybody have any idea what the BNSF was doing to help / fix the situation? How about running a plow or snow blower and having the passenger train follow?
Chris30 The story makes it seem like Amtrak was on their own stuck in a snow drift in the middle of Nebraska (nowhere). Anybody have any idea what the BNSF was doing to help / fix the situation? How about running a plow or snow blower and having the passenger train follow? CC
A snow blower?
"Hey Charlie, you still got that Toro? Good, does it work? Good. Listen, put it in your 4x4 and meet me at the Hastings Yard Shack. I'll bring mine and we'll clear the tracks ahead of Amtrak #6. Oh, your wife's got the Explorer. OK, I'll come by and pick you up."
I have an email with a photo of a BNSF ES44AC on the point of a train at David City, Nebraska stuck in the snow last week. The snow is up to the stantions on the side of the engine and up to the headlight on the nose of the short hood.
Forget the Explorer. Figure on an airlift to get the snowblower in.
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