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Well I went downstate to bring my daughter home from college for the summer and there's an Amtrak station nearby and I just happened to take my camera and....

....so I walked into the station and asked the agent when the next train was due. Well it seems the next train was a southbound out of Chicago where it originates. It's a little more than a 2 hour run and the train was already 2 hours late.

On campus Amtrak has quite a reputation. Most people feel sorry for the students who have to take the train. We were home again in the Chicago suburbs before the train my daughter might have taken even showed up.

Thanks to Sully :iconsullivan1985: who pointed out that this picture has been reused exactly as intended under Creative Commons by The Union News.
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=sullivan1985:iconsullivan1985: May 12, 2007, 7:18:17 AM
Nooooooo. Amtrak? Late?

It's always fun when Amtrak will hold my perfectly on schedule train at Secaucus Transfer Station for 15 or 20 minutes to make way for the train thats 6 hours late.

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=jimzim66:iconjimzim66: May 12, 2007, 7:19:56 AM
Amtrak, late? NOOOOOOOOO! I prefer them to NJT for their low cost tickets and 100% on time performance. It's the obvious choice.
~jdawg9806:iconjdawg9806: May 12, 2007, 10:21:02 AM
i find it funny that sometimes one amtrak is late and the one following or should be following it somehow comes early. and the one late is a local!

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=factorone33:iconfactorone33: Dec 21, 2007, 4:26:44 PM
I dunno. AmTrak and BNSF out here make serious business out of keeping the SW Chief on time. The last time I rode (about 9 years ago), we were three hours late, but by the time we made it to Albuquerque, we were damn near 30 minutes early. Granted that's over the course of a 10-hour getup, but hey, we were early.

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*classictrains:iconclassictrains: Dec 22, 2007, 5:36:14 PM
This is UP on a single track line (former GM&O). Anything getting in the way means waiting someplace for a meet.

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I dunno... whada you think?
=factorone33:iconfactorone33: Dec 23, 2007, 6:34:25 PM
Aye. The closest double-track main out here is about 350 miles from GC, and from Hays, it's not much closer.

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*MlleDinkley:iconMlleDinkley: Dec 28, 2007, 3:02:38 PM
I am faving this and showing it to my fellow commuters "We apologize for the inconvenience" is Amtrak's favorite phrase...that doesn't help the poor souls stranded 90 miles away from where they needed to have been 45 minutes ago.

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*classictrains:iconclassictrains: Dec 28, 2007, 3:36:31 PM
Thanks for the fave. I checked out your gallery... nice work :-) but no trains :-(

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I dunno... whada you think?
*MlleDinkley:iconMlleDinkley: Dec 28, 2007, 5:16:08 PM
I'm goning to have to start taking my camera with me when I go on the train. You never know what I might catch.

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