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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Henry Kisor: [QB] It is difficult to believe Amtrak has no contingency plans in place for these situations. Perhaps that is a result of the institutional underfunding it has suffered over the decades. Just checked: 7/22 departed a few minutes ago at 1:22 p.m., 23 hours and 7 minutes late. In looking at reports of long airport delays owing to weather, I surmise that the airports (owned by the municipalities) provide cots, but the Red Cross provides blankets and diapers and depends on the food concessionaires to stay open for the duration. The air carriers don't seem to be involved in passenger comfort during such delays. So perhaps what happened to the EB passengers last night is not wholly Amtrak's fault, but it does own Union Station and perhaps ought to have had cots available for this kind of situation. (Later. I don't recall such weather problems affecting Amtrak so adversely in the past. Maybe this is a once-in-a-blue-moon event. GBN, our resident historian, probably can recall others.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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