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Re: Planning a ride on the Lake Shore? Fuggedaboudit. :( |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Apr 25 10:38:43 2014, in response to Re: Planning a ride on the Lake Shore? Fuggedaboudit. :(, posted by Dave on Fri Apr 25 10:14:55 2014. Trains do not run late. The timetable is an estimate on the earliest time a train could arrive, and indeed they cannot leave before the published time. But single track railroads are an iffy affair, and one slow work zone can add an hour to the travel time. Problem is these zones are always moving, indeed on a daily basis. So AMTK may add two maybe three hours padding at some crew point or at a place where they change from one railroad to another. So they might allow three hours for a segment that they can pass in just one hour on the assumption that they will be delayed somewhere.Still, in my experience with the Empire Builder an arrival within six hours of the published is a victory. ROAR |
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