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Finally picked it up at the dealer today. Various complications delayed the whole process—won't even get into it, but in the end pricing worked out, and the car is so worth it. Great to be on this (long) journey with you 4/11 crew, from Mexico factories to Laredo to Ramp 4H to Newark purgatory...

Picking up my car on Tuesday!

Car arrived at the dealership yesterday (!) and the dealer asked if I wanted to check it out despite not being able to release it to me. (What a tease!) Vehicle (CA RT 1, AWD, ExR) is awesome as everyone knows. Loved the DMG color more than I thought I would. Feels luxury in many ways (pano...

I just got the email from Ford that I should "Complete Your Mustang Mach-E purchase!" I mean, FFS.

When I sign into UR website, the initial page shows no Current Shipments or Delivered for the affiliate. Have to search for my VIN to get the order to come up. Do you think that means my dealer doesn't use UR?

Like others my old NS train car left Newark and I've been stranded in Newark without a status since Thursday. United Road still shows my order as inactive. They have an order # for my VIN but I've seen elsewhere that this might be a red herring and UR might not even be the carrier? I can't seem...

Well, a twinkle of hope. Norfolk Southern let me know that my Newark limbo has shifted from "garbled" to "Actual Placement of Car." Love how these industrial terms are inadvertently Zen-like. ("Constructive Placement" "Released Empty") From previous posts I take it that this means "we are about...

After a long Norfolk Southern rail journey on the famous "Screamin' Eel" express from KC to NJ— through the placid plains of Illinois and Indiana, the empty widget depots of Ohio, past the hardscrabble rail towns of Pennsylvania—I have finally joined you fellas in the Pit of Despair, aka...

I got a tattoo this weekend.

@FarSide My car's on the move again. Was in New Florence, PA (pop: 689) this morning. You too? From what I've heard it doesn't take long to get to Newark, but then (as @RMoore is experiencing) it could be stuck there forever. United Road does the trucking from Newark to Upstate NY. Ideal...

Checked with Norfolk Southen and my car is in Conway, PA, just outside of Pittsburgh. Making progress! Car should arrive this year, hopefully.

My car is on the same train. “The Screaming Eel,” bound for the beautiful Port of Newark.

T-shirt on its way!

So Ford Chat finally came through! After two weeks of marinating at Ramp 6P with zero updates, today I checked in with Lakeisha and finally got a rail car number on Norfolk Southern. When I punched in the numbers on their automated system, I was given a location of Dawson, Illinois (pop: 509)...

I've made t-shirts for everyone.

Was hoping I could join you on that train but as far as I can tell I am still stuck at the dreaded Ramp 6P. Hoping I'm wrong and the train is pulling into lovely Port of Newark as we speak.

Birmingham MO is KC. It's the rail terminus for most Eastern US train Mach E deliveries. The train line is Norfolk Southern. Seems like your car hangs out at this ramp for awhile before being loaded on a train. (Mine has been on the infamous Ramp 6P for five days now.) Once it does, you can get...

Today Ordertrack says "Delivered." Origin KC, destination "Birmingham, MO." So we have movement! Goodbye Richards-Gerbaur syndrome, hello whatever comes next.

My Ordertrack is also showing "picked" and Ford chat also said my car is at Richards-Gebaur, a decommissioned air force base now used for storing cars that sounds like a medical syndrome of the lower intestine. Here's hoping our vehicles don't languish for weeks in this wormhole.