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So, wow, how bad is the UP becoming when it comes to the Texas Eagle? An agent told me last week they forced 22/322/422 to sit between Little Rock and Walnut Ridge for 2 hours to let a total of 4 of their freights go by.
Everytime I have taken it in Illinois over the past year (Springfield-Chicago), it is usually running 2-3 hours late!
I am not complaining though because if I don't have much to do on a weekend, it's fun to catch 303/323 (Ann Rutledge) out of Chicago at 8:15am and head down to Springfield and catch a delayed 22 back up to Chicago that afternoon. It's a fun ride on 2 different sets of equipment.
(I'll usually only buy the tickets when I know it's running 2-4 hours late) However, you have to book them in seperate segments because they won't let you buy them as a round-trip since 22 is supposed to leave before 303/323 gets there.
Anyway else like just "going for a ride"?
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Just going for the ride is all the fun. I killed an hours long flight delay in St. Louis just going for a ride on their light rail from one end to the other and back once.
-------------------- David Pressley
Advocating for passenger trains since 1973!
Climbing toward 5,000 posts like the Southwest Chief ascending Raton Pass. Cautiously, not nearly as fast as in the old days, and hoping to avoid premature reroutes. Posts: 4203 | From: Western North Carolina | Registered: Feb 2004
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We must have really lucked out when we went from Houston to Chicago and back in July '04. The train northbound was spot-on time all the way from Longview to Chicago. Coming home, we were 45 minutes late leaving Chicago due to a mechanical problem, but we made up the time overnight and were right on time again back into Longview.
From what I've heard about UP, this is the exception, not the rule. But I can hope--as of now I'm booked round trip on the Sunset Limited from Houston to LA and back in May.
-------------------- --------Eric H. Bowen
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