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#1 Lightning

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Posted 13 August 2017 - 07:03 PM

Starting date to be determined.  I am hearing December.  Two new daily trains SEA-PDX added!

 

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Posted 13 August 2017 - 08:06 PM

Wow, very interesting.  Train numbers will be drastically changed, and it's clear they are running out of them. If they choose to do more variations between weekday and weekend versions of the trains, they will run out.  In this new timetable, 519 is the highest Cascades number, and 520 and above are used by the Capitol Corridor and Pacific Surfliners.  They already started with 4-digit numbers on the Pacific Surfliners for weekend trains, and it may very well be time to do the same on the Cascades, using 1500's instead of 500's.



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Posted 13 August 2017 - 10:10 PM

KK:  We should have such [numbering] issues!!


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Posted 20 August 2017 - 03:57 PM

KING-TV, Channel 5 in Seattle, WA, 8/16/17:

 


 

 

More Seattle–Portland trains arriving soon

 

 

 

Good news for anyone who is looking to travel between Seattle and Portland, there will soon be more trains between the cities. 

 

The Washington State Department of Transportation announced Saturday that earlier and later departures on the Amtrak Cascades route will be offered later this year. The trains will also travel between the cities faster, and delays should be reduced. 

 

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It seems that if the Tacoma trestle project is further delayed, so will implementation of this new timetable.



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Posted 06 October 2017 - 01:48 AM

KOIN-TV, Channel 6 in Portland, OR, 10/5/17:

 


 

New trains added to Seattle, schedules altered

 

The Washington Department of Transportation is adding two new morning and evening trains between Seattle and Portland.


 

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Posted 06 October 2017 - 01:51 AM

Seattle, WA Post-Intelligencer, 10/5/17:

 


 

 

Amtrak to add two new Seattle-Portland trips soon

 

 

Amtrak Cascades announced that in December it will add two more daily roundtrips between Seattle and Portland, as well as shifting part of the route to cut travel time by 10 minutes.

 

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Posted 07 October 2017 - 12:34 AM

Almost the shortest day of the year.  Great timing--NOT!  But I plan to take the old route to Centralia one last time just prior to switch-over, then a week or so later, the new inland route.  


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Posted 08 October 2017 - 01:53 AM

Great news, although I will miss the scenic route. Although losing the bottlenecks of Nelson Bennett and Bridge 14 will help.

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Posted 06 December 2017 - 01:56 AM

Timetable now "officially" posted on Amtrak website.



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Posted 09 December 2017 - 01:42 PM

The World, Coos Bay, OR, 12/8/17:

 


 

Amtrak Cascade route changes begin Dec. 18

 

 

Travelers in the Willamette Valley will have some more convenient options on several train and bus routes beginning Mon., Dec. 18.

 

 

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