Here we go again!

I ask this question while waiting interminably to pick someone up from a grotesquely late Zephyr (no. 5).

Anybody known why it has been running several hours late for the last several days (9 hours today). A check on the Amtrak train status website showed that this has been going on for several days now.

But there seems to no one reason for it. Apparently, No. 5 leaves Chicago a couple of hours late, then loses an hour or so into Denver, then looses two or three more hours to Salt Lake. then a couple of more hours yet into Reno. And apparently does not make to Oakland at all. They have apparently been turning trains at Sacramento they are so late - putting passengers on the last Capitol Corridor train if they get there in time.

Amtrak claims mechanical problems today. But three or fours days in a row?!! Doesn't seem likely to me - something else must be happening? ? ? ?

If anyone can shed some light on what is actually happening, it would be appreciated.

OPB