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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] A Bob Johnston report posted today on [URL=http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2018/08/27-amtrak-says-it-will-not-run-trains-on-routes-without-ptc] TRAINS Newswire[/URL] states that effective December 31, Amtrak will not operate trains over any route not equipped with Positive Train Control. More routes than The Chief could potentially be affected; here's a Fair Use quotation: [i][list] [*]The policy means the Amtrak Board would insist the following trains on FRA-exempted routes be discontinued: Southwest Chief: between La Junta, Colo., and Dailies, N.M., and through Topeka, Kan. Cardinal: over the Buckingham Branch Railroad between Orange and Clifton Forge, Va. California Zephyr: 152 miles of UP’s Green River subdivision west of Grand Junction, Colo. Texas Eagle: 110 miles of UP’s Desoto subdivision south of St. Louis, Mo. Downeaster: north of Haverhill, Mass., to Brunswick, Maine., on Pan Am Railways Vermonter: north of Springfield, Mass., on the New England Central Ethan Allen: on Vermont Railway east of Whitehall, N.Y. City of New Orleans: a total of 18 miles on Canadian National around Memphis, Tenn., and New Orleans[/i] [/list] In all likelihood, some kind of accommodation will be made so that the well-accepted Downeaster will continue service, but this is one more nail in the coffin for the future of several LD's. Lest we forget, there is no assurance that UP is agreeable to a permanent reroute of the Zephyr. This is an Amtrak dictum, not theirs owing to track maintenance. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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