Apparently, while I was eating dinner, a passenger got sick and vomited in the hallway from the dining car to her room.
I wonder if this is the same passenger who fouled Jishnu's original roomette in Denver. I think that was the reason for the bad-ordering of the room.
Yup. My original room was bad ordered because of a "barf incident" as the SCA of car 632 informed me while directing me to car 630, same room number.
The next notable incident was that of the shopping lady, who left her baby and husband on the train and went off shopping in Denver. When she returned to the station the train had already left. After some discussion it was decided that the train will not back into the station to pick her up. She was instead packed off on a taxi or some such to a point down the line to get picked up. There were two options discussed, one was at the crossing with Ironwood Road near the old Stapleton Airport, and the other being Fort Morgan. We are not quite sure which option was finally exercised. The train did stop briefly near the Ironwood crossing, but that could hav =e been for something else too.since Alan did not hear any chatter on the radio at that point.
Then in the car 630 room assigned to me, the door fell off its rails and got stuck, fortunately in the open position. So I was moved to the room right across from it, thus retaining my railfan window position.
Compared to that the ride on LSL was completely free of "events". The SCA told me that my Alaska Railroad T-shirt brought luck to the LSL since it arrived in Albany and then in New York apparently the earliest it has in this entire month! The only bad part was the completely clueless LSA in the Diner, but we survived through that.
One interesting thing that is going on is that all light fixtures seem to be progressively getting converted to LED as cars cycle through maintenance. The Super I on 6 has some corridor lights that had been converted to LED from CFL. In the Viewliner I was on the roomette ceiling lights and possibly some corridor lights have been converted to LED. Only remaining CFL appears to be the wall lights in the roomettes. The reading lights in the Viewlibner were still incandescent, but in the Super I they were LED. This should reduce the load on HEP to quite some extent as the conversion is completed.
Meanwhile there was high drama going on in 49(19). Afigg from AU was on that train. It got stuck behind the rockfall near Peekskill and left Albany over 8 hours late. By the time it got to Toledo it was 12 hours late. At Toledo it was terminated and turned as 48(20). Passengers to Chicago and point between were bused from Toledo. Passengers for 48(20) we transported from Chicago and points between by 30(20) and bus to Toledo. Out of Cleveland 48(20) is running about 90 minutes late according to a report from someone on the train..