Amtrak long term service cancellations and restorations (2022-2023)
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Wild guess, but maybe the problem is in Chicago (where both trains run) where weather can be more severe?
rtabern
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diesteldorf
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I had previously booked #66, in November, to travel from BWI to Boston in March and had already been rescheduled on a morning Acela, but has Amtrak has already updated Amtrak.com to include the reduced schedule moving forward?
I was fortunate to qualify for S+ next year and am planning to visit NYP and Moynihan Train Hall, and hopefully take advantage of a few First Class Acela upgrades.
I was fortunate to qualify for S+ next year and am planning to visit NYP and Moynihan Train Hall, and hopefully take advantage of a few First Class Acela upgrades.
Some NEC trains are showing canceled but they may not be finished inputting all of them. I imagine there will be a formal Alert posted soon.
tim49424
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happens once a week when you cut schedule to 3 times a week
west point
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just checked has now changed
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EB trains 8/15 & 7/15 are on the Track Your Train map;
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28 was there also until it arrived at Spokane
Glad to see the activity on the northern tier across cold country USA
Track Your Train Map | Amtrak
28 was there also until it arrived at Spokane
Glad to see the activity on the northern tier across cold country USA
neroden
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Yes, and it's the main reason 3 a week is idiotic
tricia
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Has Amtrak given any explanation for why these service cuts stretch all the way into March? If they're mainly dealing with lots of staff out sick due to omicron, surely that will resolve in weeks, not months.
Edit to add: Since last summer, I've been tracking county-by-county Covid stats in my 15-county congressional district. Here in western NC, omicron is spiking right now, but it appears we might be at or close to its peak already. My sense is that's similar to what's happening all over the country, with local/regional variations in severity and timing, within a fairly narrow time frame.
Edit to add: Since last summer, I've been tracking county-by-county Covid stats in my 15-county congressional district. Here in western NC, omicron is spiking right now, but it appears we might be at or close to its peak already. My sense is that's similar to what's happening all over the country, with local/regional variations in severity and timing, within a fairly narrow time frame.
What they have said is that they will reinstate service earlier if the situation improves enough to make it possible to do so. So the end of March dates are not cast in stone. The restoration dates are flexible governed by how things evolve.
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Qapla
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It seems that "staff out sick" is not the only cause of the shortage of qualified workers. They have been trying to hire new people to replace those gone permanently and it takes time to train them before they are allowed to go into service.
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Nope! It happens because Amtrak chose it to happen. Witness the Southwest Chief. It will be running 5 days a week per the agent that had to rebook me - and the two days it will not be running are SUCCESSIVE DAYS! So while, yes, mathematically, you can't avoid successive days at three days a week, Amtrak made both the choice to go three days on some trains and the choice to go five days with successive days with no trains!
To answer your specific question, here is what Trains Magazine reported in its on;ine Newsletter on the 14th of Jan:
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I figured out that GEB means Guaranteed Extra Board. I assume that means guaranteed number of hours per week.
But what does MEI mean?
brianpmcdonnell17
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That's the station code for Meridian.
Thx. It's curious that it was the only opening preceded by a station code.
west point
Engineer
a look at mechanical hiring.
Any luck? I hope so!
RebelRider
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Anyone with affected reservations will be accommodated on another date or train at no additional charge, regardless of the current price. If the same space is not available resulting in a downgrade, the difference should be refunded, not put into an eVoucher.
Darn, I was really excited to do that. Oh well, I guess I can just use the Cresce- oh wait. Nevermind.
I’ve noticed that, for whatever reason, if it’s a multi-segment trip and a portion of it has been canceled, it will only show the first segment of the trip as if it were direct. So here it would be 49 to CHI and 59 to NOL, but instead of showing as “Multiple Segments” like it usually would it only shows 49.
If you were to search NYP to CHI on a day where the Capitol Limited was canceled, it would show 91 by itself as an option rather than “Multiple Segments” since a portion of that trip was canceled.
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