New York, NY Post, 7/3/17:
Amtrak moves trains to Grand Central for ‘summer of hell’
Grand Central will pick up some of Penn Station’s slack as Amtrak spends the summer repairing the crumbling west side transit hub, Amtrak announced Monday.
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Two of the service’s Friday trains have been cancelled, but one weekend locomotive will still depart from Penn each day, according to Amtrak.
OK let's dissect this. Fake news. The truth is that nothing is being cancelled! Instead of Train 293 running Fridays only, and 291 running the other 6 days of the week, 291 will run all 7 days. Train 239, which is the New York-Albany train in same slot as 293 on Mondays through Thursdays and is one of the trains displaced to Grand Central, will operate on Fridays as well, keeping that timeslot covered. Train 255 is the Friday-only New York-Albany train in 291's timeslot. With 291 running daily, the slot is still covered on Fridays. So there are no fewer trains on weekdays. Amtrak's PR department needs to make their announcements clearer, and the media needs to do their homework as well, making sure it is interpreted correctly when they regurgitate the information for their publication.
Next in the quoted paragraph above, why would Amtrak be wasting a valuable slot out of Penn Station sending out just a locomotive? Train 233 is a daily train, which will continue to operate daily, only it's running out of Grand Central on weekdays, and Penn on weekends. Problem solved. The locomotive will be hauling this train, not running to Albany without any passenger coaches behind it. Not that anybody will listen, but I propose that during the time that 233 leaves from two different New York stations depending on the day of the week, that the weekend version should get the number 263 so that they can minimize the confusion.