{"id":36441,"date":"2023-06-26T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=36441"},"modified":"2023-06-25T22:17:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T02:17:52","slug":"amtrak-schedule-tip-coming-and-going-on-the-main-line-at-christiana-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-schedule-tip-coming-and-going-on-the-main-line-at-christiana-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak Schedule tip! Coming and Going on the Main Line at Christiana, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The old Pennsylvania Railroad station at Christiana is a neat place to catch Amtrak’s Keystone trains. Over the last few months I’ve visited this location several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday evening Kris and I stopped by Christiana to make a few photos an approaching eastward Keystone<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I track Amtrak’s trains on my phone using the ASM.transitdoc.com app, which updates about every 5-6 minutes and shows the train’s last reported location, operating speed, and indicates if it is on-time or runnng behind, while providing a full schedule of station stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is often more useful than either Amtrak’s own website, which can be difficult to navigate quickly, and more up to date than 3rd party printed schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wanted to photograph Keystone Train 674. As it turned out this was operating on a special schedule owing to track work. I only discovered the train’s schedule alteration after the fact when researching the timetable for this Tracking the Light post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, since we used transitdoc App, the on-line interactive map provided all the information we needed and was up to date and literally at our finger tips! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, despite the schedule alteration, we only had a short wait at Christiana and made some neat photos of the train coming and going at speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trailing view of Amtrak 674 at Christiana, PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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