Train Mishap: almost missed train in Iowa!.mpg

Stuck in Mount Pleasant, Iowa for almost 2 hours due to freight traffic, my capturing on video of a BNSF freight train almost got me stranded from Amtrak's California Zephyr! A local good Samaritan saved me from being left behind!

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[sixamsedna]

wow, freight traffic for two hours? I can speak for my own country, but this almost never happens in Ukraine/Russia, or any of the eastern european railroads. You'd only get stuck for two hours due to them changing the trail wheels when entering countries with the rail size being different (China, western europe, etc) but never just for a train traffic.

[ultragor]

The traffic wasn't constant; the one train held us up for that long; freight trains own the tracks Amtrak rides on, so Amtrak has to yield almost always, even if it's for only one freight train running late.

[sixamsedna]

@ultragor ok that makes sense then. The BNFC or whatever it's called.. see, where I'm from there's no such thing. It's just "Russian Railways" or "Ukrainian Railways" and that's it. So we don't have delays like that. Also, train transportation is a lot more popular back there than here, so it makes more sense for lack of long delays just to have a freight train go through or whatnot. It's all tight schedule