This is cool...just randomly found it...fairly accurate too...
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Planning a trip Mike ?
Clem
Pretty neat! Can't wait for my next Amtrak trip.
I would like to do a cross-country Amtrak trip.
Over the summer I did an Acela and Northeast Regional Trip. I was surprised to see all the trips I took up there completely over booked with people standing.
That is very cool! It's not just fairly accurate, it's extremely accurate. It updates every 10 to 15 minutes over the whole country. Green is 15 minutes late or less, yellow is 15 - 60 minutes late and red is over an hour.
The Saturday WB Empire Builder #7 has been sitting at the station in St Cloud, MN because it was more than a half hour EARLY!
Empire builder is the northern most route pictured. It accesses Glacier National Park, Montana, both East and West Glacier. My return trip from the great northwest this summer generally followed this route, though eventually I did the upper peninsula of Michigan to avoid the Milwaukee/Chicago traffic.
That was pretty neat, saved the link, thanks.
When riding an Amtrak train equipped with WiFi, you can also access a progress map for your particular train on the Wifi landing page:
The moving icon updates in real-time, gives you your current speed, distance and time to the next station, as well as your on-time status. Basically the same info transmitted to the track-a-train app (which is also available on Amtrak's website)
---PCJ
