MTP - CHI  Train 6
Scheduled versus Actual
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Amtrak is often late to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa due to being pushed around by the BNSF train company
that cares more about their coal deliveries than people.  Check Amtrak.com for arrival estimates.
Please Contact BNSF and ask them to let 6 car people trains go before 60 car coal trains.

"This suggests that United Pacific and CSX do not take seriously 49 USC 24308(c), which requires that Amtrak trains be given “preference over freight transportation…except in an emergency” or where the Secretary of Transportation, in response to a railroad’s application for relief, has “established the rights of the carrier and Amtrak on reasonable terms.”  - Ross B. Capon, Executive Director, National Association of Railroad Passengers (How to Join the NARP)

How to Determine the Train Status
Departure and Arrival Time from MtP

Go to www.Amtrak.com and
enter MTP for the Depature station
and Train Number 6
for the Train Status, then click Next

Train Status Help

One city is required if a train number is used.
Departs:
Station
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Arrives:
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Search by:    Scheduled Arrival     Scheduled Departure

 

Typical results for east bound Train 6
5 hours and 41 minutes late
So go to the MTP train station about 3:00 pm instead of 10:24 am.

Children have had to stay up after midnight waiting over 14 hours for a train
that was supposed to arrive at Mt. Pleasant about 10:00 in the morning (May 26, 2007),
ruining their trip to see their grand parents (WWII veterans) on Memorial Day weekend,
due to freight trains not giving human passengers the priority as they are supposed to by law.

Write Your Congressman and Transportation Committee Members to stop the abuse of Amtrak train passengers

Hon. Bruce Braley, Iowa Congressman and member of the Transportation Committee
 

Samples of Scheduled versus Actual Arrives in MTP towards Chicago

Departing:  Mount Pleasant, IA (MTP) 
Service Station Scheduled Actual/(Estimated) Status
Arrival Departure Arrival Departure
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:09 am
19-APR-06 		  2:00 pm Departed 3 hours and 51 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:09 am
20-APR-06 		  1:48 pm Departed 3 hours and 39 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:09 am
21-APR-06 		  12:35 pm Departed 2 hours and 26 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:09 am
22-APR-06 		  12:30 pm Departed 2 hours and 21 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:09 am
23-APR-06 		  10:35 am Departed 26 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:09 am
24-APR-06 		  1:47 pm Departed 3 hours and 38 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:09 am
25-APR-06 		  12:31 pm Departed 2 hours and 22 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
26-APR-06 		  1:32 pm Departed 3 hours and 8 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
27-APR-06 		  2:56 pm Departed 4 hours and 32 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
28-APR-06 		  11:40 am Departed 1 hour and 16 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
29-APR-06 		  1:14 pm Departed 2 hours and 50 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
30-APR-06 		  12:46 pm Departed 2 hours and 22 minutes late.
 

Missing May 1-3

6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
04-MAY-06 		  3:32 pm Departed 5 hours and 8 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
05-MAY-06 		  1:35 pm Departed 3 hours and 11 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
06-MAY-06 		  1:52 pm Departed 3 hours and 28 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
07-MAY-06 		  10:41 am Departed 17 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
08-MAY-06 		  (10:38 am)
estimated 		Estimated departure: 14 minutes late.

As of the last report at 8:22 am at Osceola, IA (OSC), it was running 12 minutes late.

 

Arriving  Chicago - Union Station, IL (CHI)
Service Station Scheduled Actual/(Estimated) Status
Arrival Departure Arrival Departure
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:05 pm
19-APR-06 		  6:44 pm   Arrived 3 hours and 39 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:05 pm
20-APR-06 		  6:06 pm   Arrived 3 hours and 1 minute late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:05 pm
21-APR-06 		  4:58 pm   Arrived 1 hour and 53 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:05 pm
22-APR-06 		  4:34 pm   Arrived 1 hour and 29 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:05 pm
23-APR-06 		  2:35 pm   Arrived 30 minutes early.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:05 pm
24-APR-06 		  6:05 pm   Arrived 3 hours and 0 minute late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:05 pm
25-APR-06 		  4:59 pm   Arrived 1 hour and 54 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
26-APR-06 		  6:00 pm   Arrived 2 hours and 40 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
27-APR-06 		  7:10 pm   Arrived 3 hours and 50 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
28-APR-06 		  4:22 pm   Arrived 1 hour and 2 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
29-APR-06 		  5:36 pm   Arrived 2 hours and 16 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
30-APR-06 		  5:17 pm   Arrived 1 hour and 57 minutes late.
 

Missing May 1-3

6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
04-MAY-06 		  8:29 pm   Arrived 5 hours and 9 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
05-MAY-06 		  6:07 pm   Arrived 2 hours and 47 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
06-MAY-06 		  6:13 pm   Arrived.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
07-MAY-06 		  2:30 pm   Arrived 50 minutes early.
 
6 California Zephyr Chicago, IL
Union Station
  (CHI)
 		 3:20 pm
08-MAY-06 		  (2:45 pm)
estimated 		  Estimated arrival: 35 minutes early.

As of the last report at 8:22 am at Osceola, IA (OSC), it was running 12 minutes late.

 

6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
09-SEP-06 		  1:41 pm Departed 3 hours and 17 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
10-SEP-06 		  1:55 pm Departed 3 hours and 31 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
11-SEP-06 		  4:16 pm Departed 5 hours and 52 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
12-SEP-06 		  4:05 pm Departed 5 hours and 41 minutes late.
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
13-SEP-06 		  1:11 pm Departed 2 hours and 47 minutes late.
 
6 California Zephyr Mount Pleasant, IA
  (MTP)
 		   10:24 am
14-SEP-06 		  (1:30 pm)
estimated 		Estimated departure: 3 hours and 6 minutes late.

As of the last report at 12:01 am between Denver, CO (DEN) and Fort Morgan, CO (FMG), it was running 4 hours and 14 minutes late.
 

 

 

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