The problem isn't that they don't have enough time to get from point A to point B. The delays happen all over the line. Since the route has dozens of stops, a

The problem isn't that they don't have enough time to get from point A to point B. The delays happen all over the line. Since the route has dozens of stops, and a multi-hour delay could happen between any of them, where do you put the slack in the schedule? It also didn't help that it took until 2013 to get GPS tracking on their fleet: http://blog.amtrak.com/2013/09/google-helps-track-a-train/ http://blog.amtrak.com/2013/09/google-helps-track-a-train/ I would have linked to the status page itself but it is, fittingly, down for maintenance today. Just knowing whether your train was running behind before going to the station wasn't available until recently.