All Aboard Washington
The expanded Amtrak Cascades service and new schedules start Monday Dec 18. The new schedules are now in the Amtrak reservation system. Dec 17 will be your last opportunity to ride along the Tacoma Narrows.
All Aboard Washington
The expanded Amtrak Cascades service and new schedules start Monday Dec 18. The new schedules are now in the Amtrak reservation system. Dec 17 will be your last opportunity to ride along the Tacoma Narrows.
That's funny.We will be on the Coast Starlight going through the new bypass shortly after the 18th and have received a new ticket and an apologetic recorded telephone call about the change in our itinerary except it is unclear what they are apologetic about. It seems to be about the change in ticket, not about missing one of the truly nice sections of the trip along the coast, or maybe because we are now scheduled to arrive in Seattle 21 minutes earlier.
Boston, eh?The new Amtrak website shows the routing of Cascades trains on the timetable page as follows:
"Boston - Vancouver, BC - Seattle - Tacoma - Portland - Salem - Eugene"
https://www.amtrak.com/timetables.html
The new schedules have not yet been posted on this page.
That's because when I make my transfer from Boston to Seattle I'm going to work a special train from Boston, MA to Vancouver, then down the coast.Boston, eh?The new Amtrak website shows the routing of Cascades trains on the timetable page as follows:
"Boston - Vancouver, BC - Seattle - Tacoma - Portland - Salem - Eugene"
https://www.amtrak.com/timetables.html
The new schedules have not yet been posted on this page.
Don't you mean *witch* Salem?Which Salem?
Yes, the new numbers don't have the logic the old ones did (middle digit 1=trains serving VAC). PDFs at http://www.amtrakcascades.com/sites/default/files/Cascades%20Dec%2018%202017%20new%20schedule.pdfThe new schedules are finally posted on Amtrak's schedule page (this may have happened a few weeks ago). I don't understand the numbering of the Vancouver, BC trains--they seem to be in the same series as the Eugene trains, but they are out-of-sequence.
I believe the NEC timetables don't show mileage in order to save space. You can, however, find the mileage on the System Timetable.But the new schedules do not include new mileage! Both the old and the new timetables show 39 miles from Seattle to Tacoma or Tacoma Dome and 75 miles to Olympia-Lacey. I have noted that the Northeast Corridor timetables do not show mileage at all--I hope the mileage is fixed and not eliminated.
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