Amtrak plans to suspend even more routes on Thursday as a potential strike by its unions looms. All of Amtrak's long-distance routes will be suspended.
its remaining long-distance routes in anticipation of potential disruptions caused by a potential freight railroad strike. Amtrak saidthat have enough time to reach their destinations before a strike or lockout would be allowed to begin just after midnight Friday.
The railroad service says it has already "begun phased adjustments" earlier this week in the event that contract negotiations are not resolved with its unions before Friday's strike deadline. An Amtrak worker walks next to an Amtrak train during a station stop Dec. 9, 2021, in Fullerton, Calif.or its workforce, but many of its trains operate over freight railroad tracks. Almost all of its 21,000 route miles outside the Northeast Corridor are on tracks owned, maintained and dispatched by freight railroads, according to Amtrak.
"These adjustments are necessary to ensure trains can reach their terminals before freight railroad service interruption if a resolution in negotiations is not reached," Amtrak said in a statement.
The majority of trips along the Northeast Corridor, which runs from Boston through New York to Washington, D.C., and branch lines to Albany,
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