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Meanwhile for folks who come to AP for the trains... Some up to date factual information on Amtrak weather delays/cancellations
Author: BOB2
Date: 01-15-2024 - 10:12
Back to Amtrak and weather related delays/cancellations... An adult conversation that was disrupted earlier, about actual trains and this weather weeks events...
Trains-Update on Amtrak service delays/cancellations due to weather....
Amtrak has little or no control over the host roads or how they will respond or be able to keep tracks open and operational during these extreme events. Which seems to have gotten much worse and more unpredictable with some of the host roads over the years. Thus, Amtrak has increasingly tended to cancel trains under these kinds of predicted extreme weather conditions.
It is a clear choice about of not wanting to put passengers at risk, or tie up equipment idled for days, and making restoration of normal operations more difficult. When the train ends up stranded and/or out of service mid trip in the boonies, maybe for days, with a couple of hundred stranded passengers to keep warm, fed, and/or rescue, and then to put on alternate transportation at great cost "in the field", it is dangerous and costly...
It's going to be better for everyone to cancel the departure at a major hub, and for passengers to arrange alternate transport in a place like Chicago, or Saint Louis, than it is to do it in the middle of a blizzard in the middle of the night stranded on a train somewhere in the middle of Montana.
Trains-Update on Amtrak service delays/cancellations due to weather....
Amtrak has little or no control over the host roads or how they will respond or be able to keep tracks open and operational during these extreme events. Which seems to have gotten much worse and more unpredictable with some of the host roads over the years. Thus, Amtrak has increasingly tended to cancel trains under these kinds of predicted extreme weather conditions.
It is a clear choice about of not wanting to put passengers at risk, or tie up equipment idled for days, and making restoration of normal operations more difficult. When the train ends up stranded and/or out of service mid trip in the boonies, maybe for days, with a couple of hundred stranded passengers to keep warm, fed, and/or rescue, and then to put on alternate transportation at great cost "in the field", it is dangerous and costly...
It's going to be better for everyone to cancel the departure at a major hub, and for passengers to arrange alternate transport in a place like Chicago, or Saint Louis, than it is to do it in the middle of a blizzard in the middle of the night stranded on a train somewhere in the middle of Montana.
Meanwhile for folks who come to AP for the trains... Some up to date factual information on Amtrak weather delays/cancellations