Amtrak Lake Shore Limited depart Chicago late for the past 3 nights. Why? Today Dec.21 train is leave today at 1:00 A.M. from Chicago.[:(]
It has arrived late from the east I don’t know if it is caused by the train derailment Sunday or the train having to slog through the snow that fell all weekend all along it’s route. Since not many Chicago crews are qualified to run east of SouthBend, my guess is they have to wait for the crew to get fresh before the train can depart. The same would happen if they brought a crew from Toledo to run the train back east.
Look for it to depart late tonight 12-2 as well. According to the Amtrak website it is already running late into Buffalo-almost 2 hours from NYC.
Also looks like it was held for train 8 which arrived around 2130 according to Amtrak.com