CHICAGO — Most Amtrak Wolverine and Blue Water trains will again be cancelled on Saturday, Nov. 18, but plans are to restore all service on the two routes as of Sunday, Nov. 19, Amtrak has announced.
All six Wolverine trains and both directions of the Blue Water were cancelled today (Friday, Nov. 17) after a Thursday night grade-crossing collision and derailment involving Wolverine train No. 355 in New Buffalo, Mich. [see “Amtrak train derails in Michigan …,” Trains News Wire, Nov. 17, 2023].
Amtrak’s advisory indicates the morning and mid-day Wolverines (350, 351, 352, and 353) are cancelled for Saturday, along with Blue Water trains 364 and 364. Some substitute transportation will be offered via chartered buses for those who had previously booked the service; those who cannot be accommodated by the buses can receive refunds or are being offered transportation on Saturday’s late-afternoon Wolverines — Nos. 354, departing Chicago at 5:50 p.m., and No. 355, departing Pontiac, Mich., at 5:28 p.m., “subject to delays in the affected area in southwestern Michigan.”
Updated train status information will be available on the Amtrak website or smartphone app.
Chartered buses being used. Why weren’t trains run as far as Niles on an adjusted schedule and have the buses go from there?
This could have been a lot worse: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1665537660341345/posts/3788032671425156/