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Looks like some of it is to do with equipment failures due to the cold. My money is on the SC-44s/ALCs usual cold weather issues, with a healthy dose of frozen toilets sprinkled in. https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/amtrak-midwest-winter-shutdown-continues/

I see the Southwest Chief is due into LA Union Station at 8 AM, and often arrives earlier. I've seen some references to an abbreviated breakfast - what is that like? Are there fewer menu options?

Well, if it’s got a charger on it, that thing could terminate at any second ;) That said, ASM and Arrow seem to indicate it’ll run through.

trains are moving again. Amtrak is still selling tickets for tomorrow’s trains

Heh, I remember seeing some of those (FedEx trucks, right?) going through there on 43 earlier this year

Update: Watch live: Officials provide update on East Palestine train derailment Apparently as of this evening they’re already reinstalling tracks.

Update: 29/30 still cancelled tonight (7th) and tomorrow (8th). 29/30 were both zeroed on the 9th. (for the uninitiated: this sales were prevented in Arrow in situations where a train will likely cancel) but were both recently returned to sale.

Based on the fact that they’ve already moved 4 of the 5 vinyl chloride tankers, I imagine service will be restored more quickly than I expected - given how important that route is to NS it’ll probably be a “dump everything to the side and quickly put down new rail, get a more permanent fix later”

Luckily it would've had to be absurdly late or early for that to be a risk

According to @AmtrakAlerts on Twitter 29 and 30 are cancelled on the 6th as well…

50-car train derailment causes big fire, evacuations in Ohio Here's the first daylight aerial photo I've seen giving a good overview of the crash site. Looks like the damage is pretty isolated to the train and tracks, it's definitely no Lac-Mégantic. Looks like NS has a massive cleanup and...

Looking at openrailwaymap.org it looks like they have at least 2 diversion routes possible, one passing through ALC but just missing the platform, the other just bypassing it entirely. Hopefully someone has enough sense to reroute it instead of just canceling it indefinitely… I'm on 30 CHI-WAS...

Still ignoring the issue of seating available but no single seat for the whole journey. I get the incentives but overall it strikes me as a flawed system

Haven’t those been around for a while?

Yes, I mentioned that. I also mentioned some issues with electronic seat reservations, namely a situation where empty seats are available for every portion of a passengers journey yet there is no single seat available continuously, because when reserving seats online people will pick what they...

Assigned seats limits revenue. It means that even if there are seats available at all times between 2 stations yet no seat continuously unoccupied, well too bad, can’t sell a ticket! It also prevents them from overbooking trains - with Amtrak’s liberal change policy their no show rate is rather...

Recently often the lounge has sent me down only after general boarding starts. Per the website, we are entitled to skip the line. If a non SP/E throws a fit, I’ll tell ‘em to take it up with Amtrak. If another SP/E does, I’ll invite them to come through with me

I’m annoyed because Boston does not actually have any sort of formal priority boarding (though one could argue that everyone at BOS gets it because the other half get on at BBY,) that said showing my Select Plus card to the agent and walking in front of the rest of the line works 99% of the time

I board at NYP heading SB all the time before anyone else gets on. About 10% of the seats are taken by through travelers, the rest are empty. Most people get on or off in NY, and the trains run through more for operational efficiency than anything else. Amtrak doesn't make it "as hard as...

Per an email from AGR this morning: The lounge will be closed for 10 days. A temporary lounge will be available at Gate D, and the "complimentary gift" mentioned in previous emails will now be available from the CSR stationed at Gate D rather than the ticket office. Looks like the high spenders...