Coast Starlight Delays: Problem Solved?
I was watching the arrival times of the Coast Starlight over the last few days - earlier this year, the Starlight was often delayed by up to 10+ hours, which led to it acquiring the nickname “Starlate”. Following those incidents, certain rail advocacy groups made quite a stink about it (here and here) and the matter was brought to the attention of the Surface Transportation Board, high-level Union Pacific officials and various Governors, Senators and Congressman.
And so, today - the Starlight is much better. In fact, it even arrived earlier than scheduled on 1 of the last 11 days southbound and 3 out of 11 days northbound. It was ontime or at most 1 hour delayed 7 (southbound) and 6 (northbound) out of these 11 days (see details below).
Does that mean all is well now? Unfortunately not - it looks like the delays have simply shifted over to the Californa Zephyr now … Hmm, let’s see, what railroad’s tracks is that one running on again? Aaaahhh …
Southbound (arrival time LAX) #11:
9/16: +54min
9/17: +3h24min
9/18: +34min
9/19: +5h50min
9/20: +2h33min
9/21: +38min
9/22: -16min
9/23: +2min
9/24: +1h25min
9/25: +11min
9/26: +50minNorthbound (arrival time SEA) #14:
9/16: +4h52min
9/17: +19min
9/18: +52min
9/19: +1h10min
9/20: +35min
9/21: -27min
9/22: +1h19min
9/23: -25min
9/24: -51min
9/25: +2h13min
9/26: +3h26min (est. as of 11:37pm)
Posted in: Uncategorized | September 26, 2006 11:59 pm
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Aaron B. Hockley, on September 27, 2006 @ 8:53 am
I was on #11 arriving into SAC about 2 .5 hours late on 9/17, then on #6 arriving into DEN about 5 hours down on 9/18.
Trip report including comments about timekeeping will be up in the next week on dogcaught.com
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