Archive for January 27th, 2007

This Week at Amtrak 2007-01-26

Saturday, January 27th, 2007
  1. So many of us have been wondering where the Sunset Limited is, east of New Orleans. It’s been AWOL since a couple of days before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. Even though CSX, the host railroad for the Sunset east of New Orleans released its post-hurricane rebuilt track to Amtrak for the Sunset on April 1, 2006, there’s been nary a Sunset in sight.Amtrak hasn’t notified its unions of a discontinuance, and it says the train is coming back. But, when? And, what has been the delay?

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