Originally Posted by
jobtraklite
I hope I didn't imply that with my Fort Morgan advice. For interest sake if nothing else, i always check the status before I retire of a long distance train that I'm catching the next day. In your case, Omaha departing at 11:05PM would be it. For quite a while, if the CZ lost time on the BNSF, it would usually be in Iowa, not Nebraska. But with the BNSF funk drifting south, who knows!
Trains can make up some time, but I doubt anything like 6 hours.
Thanks, I am indeed looking for specific advice like this.
Since the train departs DEN at 805am (theoretically), it involves an early morning of getting to the station -- we live a fair distance away, have two kiddos, etc. And then if I get to the station too early, I have two kiddos to entertain while waiting for said late train, which just makes for a really long day. So ideally, I would like to arrive at the station 'appropriately early'..... I just don't know what that is yet! Or how to predict it.
If I go to bed at 11PM, and the train is running on time, I would plan to be at the station at about 730AM for an 805AM train. (Is that reasonable?)
If I go to bed at 11PM, and the train is running 3 hours late (whereever it last left, it left 3 hours late), I should plan to be at the station at [fill in the blank].
If at 11PM, it's showing 6 hours late.....
Etc.
Naturally, I'll check again when I wake up in the morning, and adjust accordingly.
I am completely uncalibrated about these things, so please treat me like a newbie! I don't mind. I've read that trains and Type A people don't mix.... I don't mind the inevitable delay -- in fact it could be good if it lets us sleep an extra hour -- I would just like to figure out how to plan for it, rather than chasing two kids around a train station for HOURS.