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The Texas Eagle is getting several other Amtrak upgrades, including enhanced on-board dining, improved ADA accessibility, and upgrades to the Texas Eagle’s bi-level Superliner cars, which offer ...
The Viewliner is a one-story train, while the Superliner is two stories and includes an additional communal car on the top floor for sightseeing. Amtrak is updating the roughly 30-to-50-year-old ...
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Amtrak Cascades service resumed on Monday after it was paused last week to replace cars in the train. Last month, inspectors found corrosion on some of the cars. It took ...
and Amtrak Cascades. Some trains, such as the Downeaster, will operate with fewer cars, while other services will be provided substitute transportation until a long-term plan is developed.
In response, Amtrak pulled its Horizon cars from the Borealis line and other lines using them, including the Hiawatha, Downeaster and Amtrak Cascades lines. For the Borealis line, that meant a ...
Service on its Downeaster, Hiawatha, Borealis and Cascades routes will be impacted as the cars undergo repairs. Across those four routes, Amtrak pulled 70 passenger cars, reported Janet Matkin ...
Corrosion discovered on Amtrak’s aging Horizon-class railcars caused the trouble. The rail company immediately removed all 70 of its Horizon train cars from the fleet nationwide, including 26 ...
Amtrak will restore round-trip train service on its Cascades route Tuesday, nearly a week after the company took most of its rail cars on that route out of operation for maintenance. Amtrak last ...
after Amtrak found a problem with the rail cars used on the line. Scheduled trains in both directions were replaced with bus service. An Amtrak spokesperson said in a statement Wednesday that ...