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Posted 07 January 2018 - 07:15 PM

Big month of change.

 

New timetables on Cascades and Coast Starlight effective 1/2/18 consistent with return to legacy routing along coast in Washington post derailment.

 

New timetables effective 1/8/18, with those touching New York related to Penn Station track construction:

 

 

The Carolinian/Piedmont timetable is actually part of a shared Atlantic Coast timetable that also includes the Silver Star, Silver Meteor, Palmetto, Auto Train, and the portion of the Crescent route shared with other trains.



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Posted 07 January 2018 - 11:48 PM

Besides Penn Station-related changes along the Northeast Corridor, I noted the other following changes:

 

  • Acela Express 2248:  Formerly Saturdays and Sundays, on new timetable it runs Saturdays only.  On Sundays, Train 2250 comes back, running in a timeslot one hour later.
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  • The weekday Shuttle trains are back between Springfield and New Haven, with work soon wrapping up on the Hartford Line.  

 

Conspicuously NOT updated yet is the San Joaquins timetable.  It was supposed to start a new operating scheme involving a morning express train from Fresno to Sacramento , with a connecting bus Bakersfield to Fresno to connect with the train.  Conversely, one of the evening southbounds would end at Fresno with the continuation to Bakersfield handled by Thruway bus.  This was supposed to happen in January; I guess it was not the same week everything else is changing.



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Posted 11 January 2018 - 08:04 PM

New Michigan Services timetable effective 1/22/18 (includes Wolverines, Blue Water, Pere Marquette, and associated Thruway connections).



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Posted 20 January 2018 - 03:00 PM

You gotta love how Amtrak doesn't post links to new timetables for some routes until well after they have already taken effect.  Here are some more for January:

 

Cardinal / Hoosier State  (effective 1/9/18)

Auto Train / Silver Service/Palmetto (effective 1/8/18) -- they finally realized that the timetable for these and the Carolinian/Piedmont is one and the same.

Lake Shore Limited (effective 1/9/18)

 

 

And now there is a System Timetable with a January 2018 date.



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Posted 30 January 2018 - 04:52 PM

Even though the Williams Junction station ceased operations as of the beginning of the year, Amtrak's new Southwest Chief timetable is effective January 17, 2018 (but not made available until a few days later).   Besides elimination of that station, the Thruway connections section shows the bus between Flagstaff and a hotel in Williams, and another shuttle bus connection from that hotel to the Grand Canyon Railroad station.



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