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  “Passengers traveling on an Amtrak Auto Train from a Washington, D.C., suburb Monday evening expected to arrive in the Orlando area by Tuesday morning. But their planned 17-hour journey experienced significant delays caused by a freight derailment.
  The southbound Amtrak Auto Train was detoured off its normal route due to the derailment of a CSX freight Monday night and was stopped in Denmark, South Carolina, while waiting for a new crew to arrive, Amtrak said.”
  Collided with vehicle. Moving again.
context: “Passengers traveling on an Amtrak Auto Train from a Washington, D.C., suburb Monday evening expected to arrive in the Orlando area by Tuesday morning. But their planned 17-hour journey experienced significant delays caused by a freight derailment.
  The southbound Amtrak Auto Train was detoured off its normal route due to the derailment of a CSX freight Monday night and was stopped in Denmark, South Carolina, while waiting for a new crew to arrive, Amtrak said.”
  Collided with vehicle. Moving again. >
  
  Meanwhile every airplane in the country was grounded by a computer glitch. >
  
  Why Amtrak is awful.
  tl;dr, Although freight rails are supposed to give priority to passenger trains, they don't. Nobody enforces this law and even though there are places for one train to "pull over" in order to allow another one to pass, freight trains are often too long to fit into these. All of this combines to make passenger rail awful. >
  
  This shit happens all the time. I had a train delayed 16 hours because a freight liner conductor broke his fucking ankle deboarding to fix a separate problem and they had to send a taxi with new crew and ambulance. >
  
  Goddam I miss living in Japan. I’m sorry America but I am just not seeing the appeal at all. >
  
  I live near Fresno.   I'd kill for high speed rail to be actual thing.   Instead we got massive money waste, Elon Musk interference and making the Boring Tunnel, and "limited" service will begin in 2025.   I'm not holding my breath, though the have made great progress since 2020.
  Edit: I last looked it up a year ago, they delayed initial service by 5 years, until 2029, and announced nothing 😂 >
  
  Reminder that Musk didn't actually plan to build anything, he just needed to jangle keys enough to get the government out of investing in high speed rail. >
  
  And it worked. One reason of many to hate Elon. >
  
  I have a trip coming up where can I sign up for that Shrek thing?