LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Amtrak’s Missouri River Runners will be cancelled for a fourth straight day on Wednesday, May 1, Amtrak announced tonight (Tuesday, April 30).
Service on the route between St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., will continue to be covered by chartered buses. Trains 318 and 319, which normally provide through service to and from Chicago, will continue to originate or terminate in St. Louis.
River Runner service has been sidelined since a Union Pacific derailment in the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit [see “Crew members injured as UP train derails …,” Trains News Wire, April 28, 2024].
