by EastCleveland
For all you Sunset Limited/Texas Eagle watchers:
I'm going to be traveling from Dallas to Chicago on the eastbound Texas Eagle.
Does anyone know how Amtrak currently handles (or mishandles) the eastbound Texas Eagle's departure from San Antonio, on those nights when the thrice-weekly Sunset Limited (hauling the Eagle's through cars from L.A.) is running extremely late?
Does the Texas Eagle leave San Antonio more or less promptly at 8am, with or without the through cars? Or does it always wait for the cars (or their bustituted passengers) to arrive from the West Coast -- even if it delays the train's departure for Chicago by five, ten, or even fifteen hours.
In other words, at what point is the Texas Eagle crew likely to be told, "Enough waiting. You're leaving."
I'm going to be traveling from Dallas to Chicago on the eastbound Texas Eagle.
Does anyone know how Amtrak currently handles (or mishandles) the eastbound Texas Eagle's departure from San Antonio, on those nights when the thrice-weekly Sunset Limited (hauling the Eagle's through cars from L.A.) is running extremely late?
Does the Texas Eagle leave San Antonio more or less promptly at 8am, with or without the through cars? Or does it always wait for the cars (or their bustituted passengers) to arrive from the West Coast -- even if it delays the train's departure for Chicago by five, ten, or even fifteen hours.
In other words, at what point is the Texas Eagle crew likely to be told, "Enough waiting. You're leaving."
Last edited by EastCleveland on Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:40 pm, edited 2 times in total.