Bloomberg Business Week, 11/15/12:
Amtrak Back to Full Service for Thanksgiving, CEO Says
Amtrak will be ready to handle the surge of passengers expected during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday after completing repairs on equipment damaged by last month’s superstorm, the passenger rail system’s chief said.
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Quotes of note:
...the railroad is borrowing equipment from Canada so it will have enough cars for holiday travelers, Joseph Boardman, Amtrak’s chief executive officer, said today in an interview.
The railroad also is obtaining extra equipment from Via Rail Canada Inc., which will be used on the line from Albany, New York, to Montreal, he said.
Well they aren't going to get any spare equipment from NJ TRANSIT this year, not with 1/4 of its fleet doing the backstroke in Kearny & Hoboken.
But now the second quote above says that VIA Rail's equipment will be put into service between Albany and Montreal. That means only the northern part of the Adirondack route. I hardly believe that the equipment used by one train is adequate enough to make a difference along the Northeast Corridor.
Amtrak will then be able to redeploy its own equipment to New Jersey to supplement that state’s rail system, which was damaged in the storm, he said.
Now that's a switch. Amtrak loaning its equipment to NJ TRANSIT? I think what they meant to say was that Amtrak can use its own equipment for the holiday extras, which will only pass through New Jersey on their way between New York City and Washington. Yet the timetables already include service on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend that have no amenities so they are presumably commuter cars.