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2014-2015 Weather related Amtrak cancellations

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[quote user="blue streak 1"] Amtrak cancelled Empire route thru Wedensday. <a href="http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Alert_C&pagename=am/AM_Alert_C/Alerts_Popup&cid=1251627177160">http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Alert_C&pagename=am/AM_Alert_C/Alerts_Popup&cid=1251627177160</a>  [/quote] Now I know why the Texas Eagle - Number 21 - is showing information unavailable due to a service disruption.   I wonder how much snow it took to cause Amtrak to cancel Number 21.  As a kid growing up in Altoona, I was not stranger to severe winter weather. If I remember correctly, there were days when the PRR's varnish fell behind due to snow, but there were not many of them.  And cancellations were few and far between. One day, during my last year in high school, which would have been 1957, I had a ticket to go from Altoona to New York.  My train was the Admiral, which I believe was Number 50.  By 6:00 a.m. snow had piled up to the point where my father could barely get the car out to drive me  to the station.  Bue he did it.  And whilst the Admiral was three hours late, it showed up eventually. And I got to Penn Station at a reasonable hour.    If Amtrak has to cancel its trains because of snow, it makes me wonder how important it is for America's intercity commercial passenger system.
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