Amtrak's Home Page Derailed?

[AlanB]

Consistantly for about the last half hour, all attempts to reach Amtrak's home page lead me to an Amtrak page telling me that I've requested a page that does not exist.

Anyone else having the same problem? :unsure:

There is also a brief instant where it seems that I'm being directed to a site called "Fatwire", before it comes back to the Amtrak error page.

 

[battalion51]

Same here Alan.

 

[AlanB]

The rest of the site however still seems to function normally.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

Alan I think you're right -- If you Google "Amtrak", look for the Amtrak.com website, but select "CACHED" instead of the direct link, it will present you with a cached copy of the Amtrak home page. All the links from there seem to work, it's apparently just that home page that is broke on the Amtrak server. This (using the Google cached page for the Amtrak home page) gives you a fully functioning site, just using an Amtrak home page that is at Google instead of at Amtrak - all the links go to the Amtrak site and do seem to work, including, for example, train status. This is a good trick to try, by the way, if somebody's home page disappears.

 

[jccollins]

The home page is working okay for me. I went to it and even refreshed the browser to make sure it was current and it's working okay. Maybe it was some kind of temporary system glitch.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

still broke for me - I got a 404 Page Not Found error

quote:

Problem with Page Requested

The page you requested does not exist or has been moved.

 

[jccollins]

still broke for me - I got a 404 Page Not Found error quote:

Problem with Page Requested

The page you requested does not exist or has been moved.

Maybe the Amtrak website operates on a different server for the west coast and it's one of those east vs. west coast issues. I am on the west coast (Nevada) but I think everyone else who has reported this problem is from the east coast. I guess we'll see if anyone else from the west coast posts.

 

[AmtrakFan]

Worked ok for me. I am in the Chicago Area.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

Wierd. I'm in the Orlando area, and it's broke down here. And while I wondered about the idea of different sites depending on where you access from, I dunno whether it's easy to setup the world-wide DNS lookup system to do that. Seems like that would be something of a nightmare, since you'd have to have a different IP for each separate "home page" server.

 

[AMTRAK-P42]

Works here in hotlanta.

 

[AlanB]

Finally at 9:00 PM the home page is back here on the East coast.

 

[AmtrakFan]

I am now having the problem.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

Still not working in ORL area @ 10 pm. Bombardier didn't write the web site, did they? :blink:

 

[AlanB]

Still not working in ORL area @ 10 pm. Bombardier didn't write the web site, did they? :blink:

:lol:

I don't think so.

 

[GG-1]

Aloha at 5:12pm, hst, I think the site got spoffed, by someone under the name http://a4.g.akamai.net/f/4/6035/2h/amtrak....s/404error.html or something

 

[battalion51]

Working for me now!

 

[GG-1]

Just got ok also, must be a spooof

 

[GG-1]

Not working again and a cookie gets set with the false page

 

[rile42]

It's 1:20 AM here in Ohio and the home page is not showing. There is a "no longer exists or has been moved message" within an Amtrak website page. All the tabs at the top do connect to the proper areas of the website though.

As someone said, maybe Bombardier developed the site.......or Mr. Mineta is working on it.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

Started working for me sometime before noon Monday. Whoever kicked the plug out of the wall must have plugged it back in

 

[Midland Valley]

working for me. Just checked arrival time for #4 and 6 at Galesburg, both are about on time.........on the same day.