Does anyone know about today Northbound train 21 being detoured? I was looking at the realtime location and it is taking a different route. http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/4/6035/2h/amtrak.download.akamai.com/6035/content/realtimetrainloc/rttl/index.html Also the southbound is running 7 hours late (not unheard of) . The UP trains here have been dinning slow and thick. Wondering if something happened. Thx IGN
See my postings under Passenger regarding the temporary re-routing of Nos 21 and 22, the Texas Eagle.
Long story short, No. 21 is not being re-routed. No 22 is being re-routed from Taylor, TX to Longview, TX, thereby bypassing Temple, McGregor, Cleburne Fort Worth, Dallas, and Mineola, due to UP track work east of Dallas. Buses are being substituted for the aforementioned locations, with the exception of Cleburne.
Addition information can be found at Amtrak.com under service disruptions.
No 21, which is the south bound train, is being reported as 4 hrs, 15 min late into San Antonio today, October 18th.
From 10/16 to 10/23 both No.21 and 22 are also being routed from Chicago to St. Louis via the UP’s ex-C&EI-MOP route between those two points. It is due to track work that will lead to 110MPH operation on more segments of Amtrak’s regular Chicago-St. Louis route.
Thanks Thx IGN
when I passes over this route around the first you could see several bridge projects with cranes in place to replace old bridges steel with new. all parts appeared to be in place for these replacements. It appeared that all bridges will be double track capable even on present single track sections ?
The Union Pacific expects to eventually run 25 trains a day on the line between St. Louis and Joliet. With that and the Illinois Service Amtrak trains running at 110 MPH over the route, the UP has stated that the entire line will have to be two track (bi-directional). The UP has also stated that the will need control points and crossovers at 8 mile intervals. Their shopping list goes on to the tune of about $4B, most to be billed to the taxpaying public.
Jeaton, what would be the speed allowed on these crossovers?