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MAJOR AMTRAK SCHEDULE CHANGES FOR
NOV. 1
The Palmetto, trains 89 & 90, will be equipped with Business Class cars and with no sleeper. The southern terminus will be Savannah GA. Train 89 will leave NY at 6:15am, routed via Washington, Richmond and Charleston, reaching Savannah at 8:35pm the same day, so no sleeper is needed. Northbound train 90 will leave Savannah at 7am and arrive in NY at 10:15pm the same day. The Silver Star, trains 91 & 92, will no longer provide rail service to the Ocala corridor in Florida, but a bus connection will run from Jacksonville to Lakeland, serving the missed cities, and allowing transfers to the train for Miami, but not to Tampa. The timings are changed also, with train 91 leaving NY at 10:01am via Washington, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Orlando, Kissimmee, then west to Lakeland and Tampa, arriving at 10:26am after backing in, then leaving at 10:35am back to Lakeland and south via West Palm Beach, arriving at 4:20pm in Miami. Northbound train 92 will leave Miami at 12:20pm, Tampa 5:22pm and Orlando 7:37pm, and then take the same route, arriving NY at 7:02pm the next day. The Silver Meteor, trains 97 & 98, will have a straight shot as in the past, with no. 97 leaving NY at 2:15pm, Washington 6:25pm, Jacksonville 8:15am, and reaching Miami at 5:15pm. The return is from Miami at 10:35am, Jacksonville at 7:40pm, Washington at 9:15am and NY at 1:22pm. This also is an entirely new timing. The Pennsylvanians all have been discontinued: nos. 42, 43, 44, 45, and replaced by Keystones to and from Harrisburg and numbered in the same order, 650/641/664 and 641 again. The Three Rivers, trains 41 & 40, will lost their baggage and sleeper cars, but provide Business Class service, and leave NY an hour later at 1:15pm, operating over its current route through Akron OH, and will arrive at its current time in Chicago at 7:45am. It returns from Chicago at 10pm, first train in and last train out, with arrrival in NY at 7:28pm. The Cardinal, train 51, on Sundays only, will now leave NY a half hour earlier, but with no changes south and west of Washington DC. Wednesday and Friday departures remain the same. The Ann Rutledge, train 304, will spend an
extra hour in St. Louis MO, reaching Chicago an hour later than now.
VIA RAIL MALAHAT DAYINER IN TROUBLE AGAIN RailAmerica Inc, the Boca Raton FL-based
present operator of the E&N Railway on Vancouver Island BC, says it
wants to dispose of the railway by next June because it is "no longer viable."
The company said the line has been seeing freight shipments decline over
the past two years. VIA's Budd-car passenger train runs over the entire
length of the main line, Victoria-Courtenay.
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