13hr Late Amtrak #8 Empire Builder

[brewbob47]

We rode this from Chicago to Portland and back this past August. It was 15 hours late getting back into Chicago. I hope you got a voucher for yours. I was told by the sleeping car attendant to contact customer service and tell them what happened. I did and we got a cash voucher for $1,500, good for a year. The late arrival was due to the slow order in ND due to the flooding and then a suicide on the tracks in MN. Hey, excellent video BTW!

[andow21]

@brewbob47 I have a question because im planning to this from my spring break 2 Seattle. At spoakane do u need 2 wake up for the transfer

[dvferyance]

@andow21 I rode this back when I was a young kid and then it was no. The front half goes to Seattle so if that is you destination you would ride there the whole trip some goes for the back end that goes to Portland.

[andow21]

@dvferyance Thank You I am Taking this Train soon! :D

[Conrad1996]

i rode this train once from spokane got on about 1:00 in the morning

[MSNWindows7]

13 hours! Gee, that's late. Pity that it left a bad impression of Amtrak to the passengers

[rcz115]

The Southwest Chief does 90 MPH in certain parts in Missouri and the California desert

[UFOSPACE1999]

The only Amtrak I been on that was on time was Los Angeles to San Diego...5 minutes ahead...But the ones going across country..NEVER ON TIME...13 hours is pretty long...but Los Angeles to Arkansas...usually 3 or 6 hours...late.

[howardkevinm]

Amtraks trains are never on time. Dont you people understand that yet? Even on their own tracks Amtrak is never on time!!! they pride on being late everywhere!!!

[pierrejones21]

I went on the Empire Builder in May 2009. It left Chicago on time and arrived in Seattle exactly on time. Maybe even a few minutes early. Someone told me that in the USA, trains are limited to 70 mph which is quite slow for trains (in England)..

[howardkevinm]

79mph. 95% of the rails Amtrak uses are Freight companies. but i do agree 79 is really slow. although the Acela on the northeast corridor (which is electrified) can go a maxium of 150mph for a short distance.

[trainpeeps]

actually 79mph. overspeed at 83.

[k5lta]

Amtrak has been late a few times for me but has also got me places 5-8 hours early so yeah,and blame BNSF and UP amtrak doesn't own their tracks so their trains always go first or is taking up track....

[howardkevinm]

i doubt it gets to places 5hrs early, thats kind of pushing it dont u think?

[k5lta]

the sunset limited has gottin me to my destination 7hrs early before

[blueloud32]

how come it was so late?

[blueloud32]

nevr mind i saw the description, srry

[trainboy32]

awesome video

[rdw283]

Thanks

[AmtrakLover65]

Where's the Sightseeing Lounge Car, and the order is partly wrong. Well me say no more.

[rdw283]

This is the Seatlle leg of the Empire Builder. In Spokane the train is broken in to two sections. One goes to Portland and the other goes to Seattle. The seattle secion is almost a full train. I would say 65% goes to seattle and 35% goes to Portland.

Hope that answered your question.

[Sagittariu6]

What are these Amtrack engines?

They look mean and awesome but still are not used for freight trains.

I am wondering why is this?

[rdw283]

These engines are made by GE and they're I wanna say a Genesis P-42 (aka AMD-103 ). These are geared for highspeed and designed for passenger service.

The power output to the traction motors is 2,928 hp (2,183 kW). The P40DC is geared for a top speed of 103 miles per hour (166 km/h). You will find freight service power is rated @ 4000 (2,942 kW) and above now days.

[Sagittariu6]

Thank you for yet another complete answer.

[rdw283]

I try :-)

[ThunderbirdsTeam2]

What kind of camera is this

[rdw283]

I think this was with my Panosonic 3CCD cam. I need to upgrade this to HD soon, youtube is not rendering my old uploads and now they don't fill the screen.

[goob67896]

Oh wow I was on that train, they put the seattle passengers on a bus.

[rdw283]

Sorry this took so long. Yes they did, were you upset they did that to you? I went down to see if Chad was the engineer but he wasn't so I left.

[goob67896]

No I wasn't upset, I ride trains all the time so I consider it part of the adventure. As the for the other passengers many of them were rather annoyed.

[willbill808]

i can break this record.... the California Zephyr was 18 hours late one time!

[MrDaylight844]

What year was this?

[thetrainman407]

awesome

[TruckerCedric]

if im not mistakin', the car on the end IS the baggage car..

[SF3751]

Looks like they didn't have time to get the baggage car on the right end. Cool vid.

[NEBY25]

You are right, looks like they didn't turn anything around because the car behind the baggage is the crew car. Any idea why the conductor climbed in the engine?.

[SF3751]

No clue.

[cooldit1]

to get in the locomotive. =)

[rdw283]

Thanks. I noticed that, Im not to sure what they were uo to.

[rdw283]

No they turned the train. It was heading east but it was turned so it was heading west. It went back to Seattle that night.

[decline2state]

What happened to the passengers? Did they get put on a bus, or did they get crowded into the Portland section?

[kanjo007]

So did they turn the train around or did it continue on to Chicago?

[gregtrain1]

Did the Portland section arrive on time that day of filming? Also, what's that clicking noise I hear when your video is playing?

[paploothelearned]

The clicking would be his still camera. :)

[rdw283]

Yes the Portland section was on time, the clicking would be my DSLR Canon camera. My pictures can be found on ( no w's) rdw283.deviantart dot com

[rdw283]

I thought I sent this but youtube says no?

Yes the Portland section was on time, the clicking would be my DSLR Canon camera. My pictures can be found on ( no w's) rdw283.deviantart dot com

[wesolint]

Nice catch - FOAMER BOY!

[rdw283]

How did you know my name was Foamer?

[wesolint]

Lucky guess????

[mrlrrconductor]

Where did you get this video at? I tried to read sign but couldnt make it out.

[wesolint]

Napa St.

[rdw283]

I placed it on the map so if you look at location you can see where I was standing and how the track arrangement is in that location.

[Amtrak507]

yeah its amtrak but usually not the empire builder

[rdw283]

It was the Empire builder, the Cascade tunnel is closed during the middle of the day. Amcrash on the Seattle side didn't make the deadline because of the heavy traffic going east.

This train is coming of the old NP Main after going around the balloon track at Yardly.

[nmanyo]

Wow 13hrs late?!

[Beaver456]

It's Amtrak! :D