Amtrak Cascades Service discussion 2025

[pennyk]

From January 4, 2025 forward, please post comments discussing the Amtrak Cascades Service here. For previous posts regarding the Amtrak Cascades Service, please refer to this thread, which is currently locked:

https://www.amtraktrains.com/threads/amtrak-cascades-service-discussion.83837/page-16

 

[Maelstrom]

Looks like Amtrak plans to fix the wrecked Talgo cabcar. The cab has been cut off and stored behind the Seattle maintenance shop. The rest of the unit is covered with tarps and still hooked to the train set. I cannot get a good picture of it yet as it is on a sideline with other passenger coaches around it.

 

[Maelstrom]

Train 516 heading to Vancouver, BC hit a Fedex truck in Marysville today. Looks to be a spot with no crossing gates.

News Article

 

[Cal]

Train 516 heading to Vancouver, BC hit a Fedex truck in Marysville today. Looks to be a spot with no crossing gates.

News Article

Disappointing but not surprising. Side note, that spot looks really cool.

 

[PaTrainFan]

Train 516 heading to Vancouver, BC hit a Fedex truck in Marysville today. Looks to be a spot with no crossing gates.

News Article

FedEx: When it absolutely, positively needs to be there overnight.

 

[ST Saint]

In better news, I believe the Seattle train was at Holgate is finally in operation:

 

[trimetbusfan]

In better news, I believe the Seattle train was at Holgate is finally in operation:
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That’s the Mt. Jefferson, on 504/509 today. Nice to see the wash rack at Seattle is working again.

 

[railiner]

In better news, I believe the Seattle train was at Holgate is finally in operation:
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“Mind the gap”!

 

[ST Saint]

Whoops, meant to say WASH from the start.

 

[Harmon Shay]

The Mt. Bachelor, the Talgo that hit the tree and badly damaged its cab car, is supposed to be back sometime next month. We'll learn shortly if that time has slipped. That's a lot of why only one of Seattle's Horizon trainsets still has four coaches, and that set is usually on the 516-519 turn between Seattle and Vancouver, BC. All the rest of the trainsets have only three coaches now. That's because several coaches are out of service and three had to be pulled from other sets to create a seventh Horizon set to sub for the Mt. Bachelor. Chicago did send Horizon club-dinettes 58002 and 58007 to enable that extra Horizon set, plus give Seattle a spare club-dinette.