According to the Amtrak site Zephyr is not operating across Wyoming yesterday, today, & tomorrow ( sun, mon, tue ). Is this an Amtrak mistake or did it not operate. If it did not operate could it be because of a shortage of UP pilots ?
If so were any of the Amtrak crew members previously qualified or maybe they are taking new familiarization runs or qualifying runs on UP freights ? Anyone know ? Also maybe the Moffett route crews may be qualifying as well or getting re qualified ?
Disregard my original thread. Appears that today CZ operated SLC – DEN today. Still question of how soon Amtrak crews will be qualified ?
I, too, wonder if they will be qualified before the track east of the Moffat Tunnel will be usable again. There were pilots on board last Friday, as I was coming home from a trip to the South (where the folks know how to talk).
There was a washout at Greeley, which necessitated bus substitution between Grand Junction and Denver when I went east, two weeks ago.
Incidentally, there seems to be no quick way to get between the UP line to Speer and the temporary station in Denver; we went up the D&SL line as far as Utah Junction and then over to the UP line on the Belt Line.
Operating crews are changed in Green River.