Via Rail Strike - Amtrak in the Dark

[kevin_standlee]

As I rather expected, the agents at Amtrak have no idea whether the strike of Via Rail Canada's locomotive engineers, if it happens, will affect service on the Adirondack. The same union represents the engineers to both companies, but the Amtrak agent said it's an Amtrak crew that operates the train clear through to Montreal. Whether the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers would oblige their Amtrak-contract members to honor the strike on Canadian lines is still apparently up in the air.

Comments

here's the latest....

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,
As a canadian looking to travel by rail these days, things don't look too good!! I was just on the AMTRAK site, and this message popped up....thought I might post it here FYI since it relates to your msgs
Here's the link:

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Copy/Simple_Copy_Popup&c=am2Copy&cid=1189639698574

BASICALLY...until the strike (which there still may not be....) is over, no trains will operate in Canada.

Re: here's the latest....

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

no trains will operate in Canada.

Actually, that's not true. Read the rest of the announcement. The only Amtrak trains affected are the Maple Leaf between New York and Toronto (Trains 63/64). The Adirondack between New York and Montreal (68/69), which is the train that most American fans coming up from the south (including me) will be on, is not affected.

(The Cascades 510/517 are also unaffected.)

So this is actually good news for most people coming by train from the USA. Thanks for spotting it and passing it on.