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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] This sort of stuff always has happened. As to the relative frequency, I could not say, but I have had a few pre-Amtrak experiences that would be somewhat similar. On one occasion, there was a derailment of some sort at the Tennessee River bridge at Decatur, Alabama. I was on the westbound Southern Tennessean, due in Memphis at 8:00 am. Instead, we arrived in Birmingham at 7:30 am. Then, to keep it on home company rails, we took Southern's very crooked Northern Alabama line to Sheffield AL. Got to Sheffield at about 1:00 pm. I bailed at Corinth MS at about 2:15 to catch a bus to Jackson TN. Based on the normal, that would have put the train into Memphis at about 4:30pm, 8 hours 30 minutes late. This was in good weather. Somewhere between Chattanooga and Birmingham we met the norhtbound L&N Humming Bird. Given that it had to be going to Chattanooga, and would probably be getting there about 2:00 am and then back to L&N rails to reach Nashville, that would put it getting into Nashville somewhere like 6:00 am, which would be 7 hours late. One other occasion I was sitting in Knoxville waiting for the westbound Tennessean, and kept watching the anticipated arrival being moved up to be consistently about two hours later that whatever time it was. Train finally showed up at 3:00 am instead of its normal about 9:30 pm. Was stuck behind a broke in two freight about 60 miles east of Knoxville the entire time. Got to Memphis at 2:30 pm. Again, no weather issue. On one other occasion, I caught the Nashville Memphis overnight train - in probably its last year of operation - during serious bad weather. Through trains were running hours late. Due to weather, all trains were limited to 50 mph or less. Surprisingly enough we got to Memphis only about 15 minutes late. Nothing else was moving. Anything can happen. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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