Amtrak continuing cancellations with no indication when service will start back up.
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Alert_C&pagename=am/AM_Alert_C/Alerts_Popup&cid=1251627181506
It's *just* a different world today. For example, as I grew up, schools wouldn't shut down because of cold and snow. I remember being a patrol boy in 5th grade, out covering an intersection on 20 below mornings, making sure kids were protected as they crossed busy streets walking to school. Today, you've got kids being bussed to school. Schools close even before forecasted storms hit. The liability issues involved outweigh everything else.
nyc#25 Stop with the airline analogy! More people ride these trains between intermeadiate stations that have no other transportation options.
Stop with the airline analogy! More people ride these
trains between intermeadiate stations that have no
other transportation options.
Name one community served by Amtrak that does not have a highway. Name the communities served by Amtrak that don't have or could not have intercity bus service.
If Amtrak's long distance trains are vital for the nation's commercial passenger transport needs, how come the following Texas cities with populations of more than 100,000, to illustrate just one state, don't have Amtrak service: Abilene, Amarillo, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, and Wichita Falls.
Amtrak's long distance train system could go away tomorrow and most Americans would not even know it. Having said that passengers trains make sense in relatively short, high density corridors where the cost to expand the highways and airways is prohibitive.
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Safety for passengers, then!
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
blue streak 1 BaltACD Amtrak rather than be criticized for having hundreds of passengers stuck in the middle of nowhere for a indeterminate amount of time features that it is better to curtail service. No worse than airlines cancelling flights account weather issues. BALT is so correct !
BaltACD Amtrak rather than be criticized for having hundreds of passengers stuck in the middle of nowhere for a indeterminate amount of time features that it is better to curtail service. No worse than airlines cancelling flights account weather issues.
Amtrak rather than be criticized for having hundreds of passengers stuck in the middle of nowhere for a indeterminate amount of time features that it is better to curtail service. No worse than airlines cancelling flights account weather issues.
Right on back in the day labor was cheap. Its all about the bottom line for the railroads and of course safety.
Today's Class 1 carriers do not have the legions of MofW employees with shovels, brooms and ice chippers that kept the lines open and operative in times gone by. With nearly all Main Lines being remotely operated by CTC systems - switch and signal failure with bad weather can be catastrophic on the lines affected by blizzard type conditions. Under such conditions, even if personnel can be contacted to respond to the problem - their own ability to reach the affected location is also hampered by the storm (Maintaners & MofW personnel no longer live right at their work locations).
blue streak 1 Amtrak cancelled Empire route thru Wedensday. http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Alert_C&pagename=am/AM_Alert_C/Alerts_Popup&cid=1251627177160
Amtrak cancelled Empire route thru Wedensday.
http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Alert_C&pagename=am/AM_Alert_C/Alerts_Popup&cid=1251627177160
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.
The first blast of winter weather has caused all Albany - west New York Amtrak trips to be cancelled. Included is west bound LSL from NYP> The 5 feet of snow around Buffalo is the culprit. Texas eagle #21 also cancelled from Chicago. Weather ?
East bound Lake Shore today was 5 + hr late into Buffalo and 9 + hours late from Rochester 61 miles.
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