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I called Customer Relations, and they ended up just issuing a refund for the entire ticket that was purchased part-voucher, part-cash (which was a pleasant surprise). I then rebooked the same segment (Friday’s Wolverine 353) with the remaining voucher, and was intending to book the other train I...

It seems that Wolverine train 350 and 355, scheduled to resume on Monday, October 24th, have been canceled according to Arrow. They are still showing as available on Tuesday, October 25th and beyond. Either they just need one extra day to resume service or they’re in the process of cancelling...

The scenery in Ontario is actually pretty interesting with all the lakes you see. I found Winnipeg-Edmonton to be more boring, in fact. Going in I was wondering if the 4 days would be too much, but I really didn’t - my only annoyance was the large amount of padding added to the schedule which...

Hmm - wonder if these Ventures are en route to be used on the consist for the resuming 350/355 Wolverine. As for the sleepers, they could use some more on the western trains - wonder if some may get a second sleeper back.

I called Amtrak, and the reason I couldn't do anything with the remaining leg of the trip was because there was a 17 minute schedule change. That is silly - why should that block any changes or even seeing the reservation on the mobile app? In any case, they accepted the change on their end, and...

OK - for some reason I thought this was possible for one-way but not roundtrip.

I know I have to call to get the current mess straightened out, but what I’m wondering is if it’s possible to change to a later train on the same routing on a round-trip reservation without calling (this would be if I can’t make that train). Does anyone have any idea about this?

I just cancelled one separately-booked leg of a trip I had booked since I wanted to change to a different (less expensive) train and this ticket was booked with a voucher, whereas the other leg was voucher and cash. As such, I wanted to rebook both legs so that I could use as much of the voucher...

Just saw Wolverine 352(17) in Ann Arbor. It was delayed over 2 hours due to a freight train dropping equipment and having to go back and retrieve it (twice! on a line owned by MDOT!). The Thruway bus to Toledo arrived while waiting for 352 - I heard the station agent talking with the driver and...

Took a video of Wolverine train 353(17) arriving at the Ann Arbor station. Was hoping to see some Ventures on the consist, but alas, it was running all Horizons. Was running only a few minutes late, and a decent number of passengers were waiting to board when I was there. Hoping to catch a...

Just made a trip to the Ann Arbor station to see 353 - it’s running all Horizons. Want to head back there to see 352 at some point this week to get an idea of if any of the consists have Ventures. They could also be the withdrawn consist of 350/355, which should return next Monday.

Does this impact all consists of the Canadian, or only some of them, and is there a timeframe for the needed work to be finished to remove these? Glad I got to experience the Park Car without any cars attached to the back - while the dome was great, so was looking out the railfan window on the...

Changes to the Pacific Surfliner schedule were just announced. Not sure what if anything is different from the temporary schedule announced 10/3.

Did you just take the train to Shelby and return the same day? I’ve done something like that before when I was short on time and wanted to do an LD train trip, but it’s been a while. Last one was taking the Wolverine to CHI, Cardinal to WAS, overnight Regional to BOS, and Lake Shore Limited to...

You would have to take Detroit transit (DDOT/SMART buses on Woodward or the QLine) from Amtrak to the Tunnel Bus stop, take the Tunnel Bus to Windsor, and then transfer to Transit Windsor’s route 2 to the VIA Windsor station. I’ve researched this before and will probably do a variant of it at...

Looks like the soonest they’re looking at resuming service is early to mid-November:

You won’t have to swim to San Diego - while the Surfliner has suspended service between Irvine and Oceanside, they are running trains LA-Irvine with a bus bridge to Oceanside where you reboard the train to San Diego. Your departure from LA may have changed, though, as there are only 4...

Schedules for 10/3 and beyond have been officially announced: https://www.pacificsurfliner.com/plan-your-trip/alerts/travel-advisories/ This is exactly what was showing up on the reservation system yesterday - 7 round-trips IRV-LAX, 4 round-trips OSD-SAN with bus connections to meet one of the...

Amtrak’s reservation system is now showing trains San Diego-Oceanside and Irvine-LA plus buses Oceanside-Irvine starting October 3 through October 23rd. Currently it shows 4 round-trips between SAN-OSD (with connecting buses for those), plus 7 IRV-LAX trains, as well as a bus LAX-SAN to...

An update - currently all Amtrak service south of Irvine is cancelled, but they expect to have San Diego-Oceanside trains and an Oceanside-Irvine bus bridge by 10/3: