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[BillMagee]

In this topic I'll post charts of the arrival and departure records of the Amtrak trains associated with the MTRF.  The charts cover the period from April 1 to June 30, with one chart per month.

 

First, the Southwest Chief arriving at Kansas City.  Trains arriving on-time or early are shown with a green marker.  Trains arriving late have a red marker. The times for each marker use the 24-hour clock.

 

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Next, River Runner #316 arriving in St. Louis.

 

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Now. the Texas Eagle #21 at St. Louis.  For this train, the arrival and departure is shown, along with the dwell at the station.  The bar for each day shows the dwell with the arrival and departure times shown above and below the bar. The green portion of the bar indicates the dwell before the scheduled departure time. The red portion of the bar is the dwell after the scheduled departure time.

 

 

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Now, the Texas Eagle #21 arriving at Dallas.

 

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Now, the Texas Eagle #22 leaving Dallas. This chart uses the same dwell bar as the #21 chart for St. Louis.  Note that the train did not call at Dallas for over a month.

 

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And, finally, the arrival of the Texas Eagle in Chicago.

 

[KevinKorell]

Thanks, Bill for doing this.  Discouraging though to see the data, for instance 22 only arriving on time into Chicago twice in June and never in May!  There were various detours in Illinois and Texas; however those should be past by now unless something new is sprung upon us last minute.

[steve4031]

Lots of late arrivals onto Dallas too for 21. That may impact our plans. Thanks Bill. I was actually on the may 10 21 which was on your chart.

[KevinKorell]

If we're really late into Dallas on Tuesday, it may not be out of the question that we might want to relax a bit in selected hotels, and then perhaps do the light rail after dinner.