MTP - CHI Train 6 - the California Zephyr

https://www.amtrak.com/california-zephyr-train

It takes about 130 minutes (2 hours 10 minutes) for the train from Osceola to Mount Pleasant
So when the train arives in OSC, start driving to MTP within an hour.
It takes 30 minutes to drive from Fairfield to MTP Amtrak
Leave 1/2 hour for contingencies (flat tire, gas stop)
Leave Fairfield 1 hour after California Zephyr reaches Osceola.

I takes 1/2 hour to drive from Fairfield to Mt. Pleasant Amtrak Station

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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

One city is required if a train number is used.
Departs:
	Station List	Train No.: (Optional)

Arrives:
Chicago - Union Station, IL (CHI)	Station List

Date:	Time:
	Calendar

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	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.

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

Samples of Scheduled versus Actual Arrives in MTP towards Chicago

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

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