With no cited authoritative source and no separate collaboration from any other individual, group or media organization, I am not sure how anyone can take this information as being anything other than simply propagation of unfounded rumors and corporate gossip. This is classic hearsay (“I heard from someone that someone said”) and there is good reason that hearsay is not admissible testimony in court: it is notoriously unreliable.
Here are some facts. At this time, not one train has been selected for cancellation. Not one presently staffed station has been selected to go un-staffed. By law, any cancellation of a train that results in complete discontinuance of service to any city must be made with 180 days notice. Absent any such notice (and no notifications have been made), and given that most long distance trains serve single-train stations, there cannot be any LD train cancellations until at least six months from today. That six-month period is designed to provide time to find funding remedies to permit the service to continue. So the implied message that Amtrak can cancel trains in an almost secret manner in the dark of the night is totally false. Add to that the wild claim that all stations may be un-staffed, and “all” includes New York, Philadelphia, Washington, etc., and the overall message is reduced to a farce.
To simply broadcast and propagate unfounded rumors greatly diminishes the impact of any message advocating a position. Imagine calling or writing a legislator and saying that you heard from a source on the internet that some other source who cannot be identified says some unknown trains may be cancelled. Gee, there is a powerful claim. Do that enough times, and you will soon get labeled as a zealot and ignored.
I, for one, will wait until I have real facts before I jump off the deep end. I will wait for Amtrak to post train cancellations publicly, as required by law, and then will decide if the cancellations are worth worrying about or not. Those who really support Amtrak and who do not want to come off as wild-eyed almost cult-like kooks would be well advised to do the same.