We got some bad news at 5:20 this morning. Amtrak ended the train trip in Spokane, rather than going all the way to Seattle. All the passengers got on buses for the six hour trip from Spokane to Seattle.
The problem: Since the train was 5 hours behind schedule, it wouldn’t have gotten to Seattle in enough time to get turned around for its scheduled afternoon departure back to Chicago.
Looking on the bright side, nobody got hurt, and it’s a beautiful sunny day. All the passengers are very well-behaved, especially since they were woken up at 5:20 and told they’d be getting on buses in about 30 minutes. Everybody is rolling with the punches.
My sister said they should decorate the buses to look like trains. I’ll put that in the Amtrak suggestion box.
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| View from the bus as we crossed the Columbia River (nice view, but a bus ride was not exactly what we had in mind) |
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| We arrived by bus at the King Street Station in Seattle (where the train would have arrived) |
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| King Street Station, Seattle |
It's nice of you not to be upset by the long delay, but isn't this why people don't usually take trains in the US?
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