Amtrak - is it always on-time?
Feb 8, 2007 | 9:47 am
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Feb 8, 2007 | 10:42 am
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Amtrak has it's own time: each hour takes 70 minutes...
The problem with Amtrak is once they fall behind schedule, the train loses priority to all the on-time traffic when they get to single-track situations. I tried taking Amtrak once from Lansing MI to Chicago - it was running 15 minutes late from Toronto, but it got stuck at a crossing about 3 miles outside of town and sat there for an hour, then we left Lansing and it went two miles and sat again for another hour.
But as another posted said, Amtrak is fine if you're riding on the first part of a service.
The problem with Amtrak is once they fall behind schedule, the train loses priority to all the on-time traffic when they get to single-track situations. I tried taking Amtrak once from Lansing MI to Chicago - it was running 15 minutes late from Toronto, but it got stuck at a crossing about 3 miles outside of town and sat there for an hour, then we left Lansing and it went two miles and sat again for another hour.
But as another posted said, Amtrak is fine if you're riding on the first part of a service.