Why is Amtrak so riddiculously unreliable?

Katie and Jim on a train in Switzerland
Originally uploaded by KatieZVoss.

I guess you can rely on them to be late. So at the moment, Jim's only going to be 3 hours late. 19 hours on a train... piece of cake, right? Actually, he's probably enjoying it. I just want to pick him up... see him again, ya know. Get on with life.

Waiting waiting waiting...