my story Wrote:
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> Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
> > It might be fun to ride a very late Builder,
>
> That brings back a bad memory. In winter of 1990
> or 1991 I rode a Builder from Chicago to Seattle.
> The train was stopped in Montana because of a
> weather event (Chinook Winds in the Rockies,
> maybe). By the time we got to Spokane, we were so
> behind schedule that they transferred us to a bus
> for the remainder of the trip to Seattle. The
> train turned at Spokane and head back East.
> Compared with my bed in the sleeping car, that bus
> seat really sucked.

Never been bumped to a bus, but way back in '58 or '59 was on the Portland Zoo train when we derailed. I was one bummed out little kid, and we had to walk back to the Zoo.