A Canal Street streetcar in 2018. The system was shut down briefly by heavy rains on Wednesday. Bob Johnston NEW ORLEANS – With all of the Crescent City’s 200 flood gates set to shut by Friday in advance of approaching Tropical Storm Barry, Amtrak has cancelled all service in and out of New Orleans through […]
CSX Transportation train Q389-08 brings west the last of Amtrak’s F40PHR locomotives and a lone P40. Amtrak’s Delaware shops sold the units to Larry’s Truck Electric earlier in the year, the sale marked the last of the F40s on Amtrak as well as the first P40 to go to a third party for scrap. Stephan […]
Eastbound Wolverine No. 352 pounds across the South Shore diamond at Michigan City, Ind., on July 3, 2019. While Amtrak is offering a sale on coach fares, Wolverine fares illustrate that the discount is not offered on all dates and trips. Bob Johnston WASHINGTON — Amtrak’s latest fare sale is offering “Amtrak Across America” discounts […]
Crowds greet a New Orleans-Jacksonville, Fla., inspection train at Mobile, Ala., on Feb. 18, 2016, at the former site of the Amtrak station once served by the Sunset Limited. A meeting is scheduled for this week in Mobile to address city council concerns about the planned revival of passenger service on the route. Bob Johnston […]
WASHINGTON — Service on and south of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor is being disrupted by flooding near Washington, D.C. About 10 a.m. EDT, Amtrak said on its Northeast Corridor alerts Twitter feed that all trains travelling south of Washington were stopped because of severe weather conditions. Tracks began to be cleared for traffic about two hours […]
PHILADELPHIA — As repairs continue on overhead wires following a major storm earlier this week, Amtrak is operating Keystone Service on a modified schedule between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa. Eight westbound and eight eastbound Keystone trains will operate today, plus the New York-Pittsburgh Pennsylvanian in both directions. Normally, there are 13 Keystone trains in each […]
PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak is running some Keystone Service trains between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa., on a modified schedule this afternoon and evening, after earlier cancelling trains on that segment because of damage from severe storms east of Harrisburg on Tuesday night. The railroad says July 4th service will operate as scheduled “subject to some delays while […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Amtrak has begun offering bus service between Green Bay and Milwaukee, connecting with its Amtrak Hiawatha service at two stations in Milwaukee. The new Amtrak Thruway bus service began Monday, offering two round trips between Milwaukee and Green Bay with intermediate stops in Appleton, Oshkosh, and Fond du Lac. In Milwaukee, the […]
Union Pacific SANDERSON, Texas – Union Pacific has experienced a bridge fire on the Sunset Route south of Dryden, about 18 miles east of Sanderson. According to the railroad, the fire occurred on Sunday evening and the line is expected to reopen “later this week.” According to spokeswoman Kristen South, at about 6:30 p.m. on […]
WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board has announced it will hold a board meeting on July 23 to determine probable cause of the Feb. 4, 2018, collision of Amtrak and CSX Transportation trains near Cayce, S.C. The engineer and conductor on the Amtrak train were killed, and more than 90 others on board required […]
Shelbi Hoover, Paul Utterback, and Dr. Helen Hudson help prepare the Crawfordsville, Ind., station on Saturday, June 29, the day before the final run of the Hoosier State. Bob Johnston Passengers and volunteers greet the final northbound Hoosier State as it arrives in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Sunday. Bob Johnston CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. — Seven passengers boarded the […]
PHILADELPHIA — Amtrak is suing the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority in federal court, as it seeks a dramatic increase in rent in a dispute over land SEPTA leases along the Northeast Corridor. Since 1987, SEPTA has paid $1 a year for land along the corridor it uses for stations and parking lots; the transit agency […]
