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Isn't 60 minutes the cut off for the reservation system ? Do remember the CUS Gate Dragons will slam the door on your nose 5 mnutes before departure time like they're running a Japanese clockwork operation, so now the connection to the CoNO is really 46 minutes.

I hope they do that. I would just couple the Borealis and the Hiawatha together south of Milwaukee, leave the current Hiawtha equipment cycles alone, like VIA Rail does at Brockville in 10 minutes. Load each half from the north and south concourses at CUS. Borealis is receive only northbound /...

There is a big problem there and it is replicated across NYS state every single day. A booked Borealis may run at best half full north of Milwaukee, which is true on Niagara Falls trains and the Pittsfield train north of Abany. There may be just 80 people on the train to Pittsfield with 300...

I am not from the midwest, but from NJ. I am no Gen-Z'r, but a mid-Baby Boomer. I don't know what "regional" food is there, and I don't drink, particularly dislike the taste and scent of beer, but all the food and beverage items mentioned in the 2nd and 3rd paragraph just above - I'd refuse to...

Impact is exactly the same. A pair of trains were cancelled, and it took overnight to send each train back to where it came from, passengers in those trains had their trips ruined with no accomodations on subsequent trains to the extent they were booked.

Leave the trains where they are, then couple to the rear of the following day's train and proceed.

Given anything resembling the current Vermonter timetable, which would have it arriving St Albans from Montreal at 9am, and departing for Montreal at 9pm, there is no way a Montreal-based crew can go down to St Albans and go back the same shift - they'd be out for 16 hours. You can't tweak the...

I never suggested that VIA's crewing has any impact on this. VIA has nothing to do with this.

I would have the Springfield crew run to White River Junction, and a Montreal based crew employed by Amtrak run down to WRJ. Many years ago, CV and B&M crews would change there. That would take care of issues of French, Canadian regs, and wall time constraints. Former EXO crews who ran on the CP...

In a word, No. VIA trains are crewed by their own people, and lack a position called "conductor". The engineer actually handles checked baggage. Totally different set up they have there. The last use of CN crews on passenger trains I recall was on the ONR Northlander south of North Bay, and...

There are more issues with using Springfield, MA crews into Canada such as learning French, Canadian railroad regs, qualify for the extended route, and hope CN unions don't demand crewing the train based on the above and on precedent. Tom Downs killed the Montrealer because of the cost of CN's 5...

The CV/NECR side of the insulated rail joints and longer cross ties has the grade crossing, yet the crossing sign says to call CN for emergencies.

The point made about the remote Quebec trains is they had been over-nighted to avoid high daytime temperatures on CN's other lousy trackage as well. Cantic - Rouses Pt also sees an NS freight train bridged from the CN via the CP/D&H to the NS NY Southern Tier. Notice this trackage has no...

The majority of it is welded rail. I once read somewhere there are no rail anchors at all on this route regardless. There are 10 freights a week each way. Notice the remote Quebec VIA trains operate on the northern portions in the middle of the night (to avoid the daytime heat ?).

Of course. Wednesday's train never left Montreal due to mechanical, though passengers were bussed. Somehow they scrounged up equipment for 69 on Thursday.

I don't know about great performance. Right now, 63 is an hour late by Harmon. There was no 68 yesterday out of Montreal: "Service Adjustment: As of 12:50 pm ET, Due to ongoing mechanical issues, Train 68 is canceled from Montreal (MTL) to Schenectady (SDY) and will originate in Albany...

In the last few days, 63 broke down on the Mohawk Division, 281 brought it a new engine, and 63 proceded to Toronto 5 hours late. I was on a nearly 2 hour late 69 to Albany last summer, the one day of the year I used the service.

Run to Plattsburgh and then what ? Train cannot sit there or in the yard several miles south of Plattsburgh overnight. It is 4pm by the time the northbound gets there, too late to come back. There's plenty of Greyhound, Trailways, and Flix bus service between NYC, Albany, and Montreal. 75% of...

This seems to be about cutting out East River tunnel moves, such as by deadheads out and back to Sunnyside. Maybe fewer Keystone trains will go to SSY and back, or top and tail some Empire Albany trains. I am surprised they didn't go after the Cardinal for Washington truncation, but swapping...

There's an Amtrak Fans Facebook. You also can't make reservations. As usual, Amtrak enjoys not being forthcoming.