Amtrak ontime status3/27/2023 ![]() ![]() (thanks for the resource tools for monitoring) I happen to be a big fan of Amtrak, and I want them to do well - despite ever intensifying partisan sniping to kill them. This indeed is an “interesting” and important post. Hopefully this can give you a better idea of how to check historical Amtrak delays, and whether those delays are large enough to have an impact on your travel! Since that’s MUCH more important to me, I was glad to see that. That’s good but not great news, but the better news is that for the reverse trip, I wouldn’t have missed the train once. Out of the 6 months of data that I chose (157 total results), I’d have missed the connection in Chicago 12 times (7.6%), though some of those were close enough where they might have held the train in Chicago for us. Here’s the connection information in Chicago connecting from the California Zephyr to the Capitol Limited Since that’s really what I’m trying to figure out, I gave that a try. ![]() Amtrak must have gotten the memo as they recently emailed me that they’ve pushed the schedule back, so instead of leaving at 7:10pm it is now scheduled to leave at 8:10 p.m.īut even more useful is that the ASMAD gives you a page where you can test a connection. Here’s the delays for the eastbound California Zephyr out of Denver’s Union StationĪs you can see, there’s been a few really bad delays lately. First, you can look at the historical Amtrak delalys for a given train at a different station. This lets you review the historical Amtrak delays information in a few different ways. I was able to spot check a few days to get a better idea of the on-time performance of the various trains that I’d be on to see what kind of Amtrak delays I was likely to run into, but then I found a different website – the ASMAD: Amtrak Status Maps Archive Database. Or changing selmonth to “02” gives you days in the month of February, etc. So changing “selday” to 07 would give you June 7th. The IP address seems to change periodically, so I wouldn’t bookmark that actual URL, but once you can get to it, from the status maps page, you can also change the URL parameters for different dates. Clicking on the train number will take you to a page with a URL that looks something like this In pseudo-realtime, it will show you the location of each train. Pick a region, and you’ll be presented with something like this It has a few resources that I’ve found useful. One that I used is called the Hitchhiker’s Guide to Amtrak. Luckily, there are several other sites that will help you track historical Amtrak delays. So while that can be useful, what I was more interested in was figuring out how delayed (or not!) my trains were likely to be. The big downside with this site is that you can only check the status for a week in the past. In this case, you can see that train 29 left Toledo, Ohio 52 minutes late on June 7th. On the main part of the website, choose the “Status” tab instead of the “Tickets” tab, put in your train number and station, and pick your date If you are wanting to just check the status of a specific train, the best place to do it is the actual Amtrak website. The other issue is that we currently have 2 family bedrooms (sleeper cars) on our trains, but availability is pretty tight, so the odds of there being 2 family bedrooms available on the next day’s train is pretty low. In looking through people’s comments, Amtrak has a pretty good policy about misconnections – they will rebook you on the next day’s train, usually with hotel, meal and/or taxi vouchers, or I even read stories of them busing you to “catch” your train, but even in the best-case, where we got on the California Zephyr the next day, that would cause a major disruption to our plans, since we have hotels and other plans all booked based on our current schedule. Amtrak delays that caused me to misconnect on the outbound leg of our vacation would be catastrophic. We’re taking the Capitol Limited train into Chicago, and connecting to the California Zephyr to Denver. ![]() Amtrak points (transferred from Chase Ultimate Rewards) are part of the 350,401 miles that we’ve spent on this trip.Īn Amtrak delay of even several hours wouldn’t be the end of the world, except that our current plans have us connecting Amtrak trains in Chicago. Points With a Crew and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers.Įarlier, I shared an introduction to our upcoming summer family vacation – Big heads, trains, and bears, oh my! Part of the trip is an Amtrak train from Ohio to Denver, and so as I’ve planned out the trip, I’ve become concerned about Amtrak delays. Points With a Crew has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. Don't miss out! Join the thousands of people who subscribe to our once-daily email or our free miles and points Facebook group with all the best travel news. ![]()
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