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Looks like everything is canceled again today at least so far. Yikes.

Amtrak 355 just went past MP 22.5 on time at 5:35 pm. First Amtrak in two days.

WB blue water departeth Battle creeketh

Anyone know what happened to #365 today? Transitdocs map shows 4 hours late Battle Creek. Amtrak site says Service Disruption.

CR900945 wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:30 pm

Anyone know what happened to #365 today? Transitdocs map shows 4 hours late Battle Creek. Amtrak site says Service Disruption.

Hit a vehicle that went around the gates.

P364 led by #69 clear CP 482 approx 45 minutes late.

P364 departed New Buffalo at 17:59

350 is at Detroit Woodward. Baggage Car on rear.

353 departing Dearborn 8 minutes late, Charger 4604, 2 horizons, 2 ventures, 1 Amcafe. Big crowd. Conductor saying train is sold out and 100+ people boarding at Ann Arbor. Good for business!

Yesterday Train 350 was an hour or so late arriving in Pontiac. Then it left Pontiac as 355 almost two hours late for some reason.

And this early morning Train 354 arrived at Pontiac around 5 am, around four hours late for some reason. Train 351 did leave Pontiac on time this morning.

09:25: 29 is nearing Chicago 4 minutes late.

09:26:
-351 has departed Kalamazoo 2 minutes late.
-371 is passing through Gary, IN 9 minutes late.
-49 has passed through Rolling Prairie, IN on time.

09:27:
-353 is nearing Detroit on time.
-365 has passed through Charlotte on time.

09:28: 350 has arrived at Niles on time.

For anyone keeping track of consist information, starting last week 448/449, the Boston section of the Lake Shore, has been assigned a new Viewliner 2 sleeper, while 48/49 the NYC section is back to two Viewliner 1 sleepers.

On the Michigan Line, new Venture series Business Class cars are starting to show up. I didn’t realize how new it was at the time when I saw one on 353 back on April 14.

This article also came out recently. Of course subject to substitutions based on mechanical availability, but I expect we will see mostly Venture coaches from here on out, with Amfleet Cafe and Horizon Cafe (remember when they were “Dinettes?”) cars continuing to offer food service for now.

https://news.jrn.msu.edu/2023/04/amtrak ... an-routes/

GP30M4216 wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:29 am

On the Michigan Line, new Venture series Business Class cars are starting to show up. I didn’t realize how new it was at the time when I saw one on 353 back on April 14.

Interesting, so the business class will be separate from the cafe? unlike the horizons/amfleets where they are in the same car?

David Collins wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:01 am

GP30M4216 wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:29 am

On the Michigan Line, new Venture series Business Class cars are starting to show up. I didn’t realize how new it was at the time when I saw one on 353 back on April 14.

Interesting, so the business class will be separate from the cafe? unlike the horizons/amfleets where they are in the same car?

Correct, they will ultimately be a married Cafe-Business Class pair. But right now, the Cafes are on massive delay so they're paired up Business Class and Coach Class cars, and continuing to use the Horizon and Amfleet equipment to provide the Cafe services.

Bit of a fun one happened at Chicago Union Station at around 2 AM, a charger was going over a switch, while it was half way over it, the switch reversed and the rear of the engine ended up on the other track. Multi-track drifting!

I apologize for the caption being in the shot, this came off of someone's instagram story.

58, The City Of New Orleans by LaPlace, Louisiana.

Charger #311 & 313, 7 Superliners, 2 Private Cars on rear.

350 today had a Charger leading and a Genesis P42 trailing. And only one new Venture coach.

355 that just left Pontiac had the P42 leading and left the Charger in Pontiac.

#43 by Cresson, PA at 5:46 PM, always a treat to see a P42.

58, The City of New Orleans, departing New Orleans.

317, 1 Horizon, 8 Superliners.

An entire train of loaded Amtrak neon green ballast hoopers just went by me at Cassandra, PA. This is heading for the AML, two NS AC44C6M's for power.