• Houston, Harvey Disaster Rail Updates

  • For topics on Class I and II passenger and freight operations more general in nature and not specifically related to a specific railroad with its own forum.
For topics on Class I and II passenger and freight operations more general in nature and not specifically related to a specific railroad with its own forum.

Moderator: Jeff Smith

  by STrRedWolf
 
Latest from Amtrak, dated Sept 8th:
Service between Los Angeles and New Orleans via Houston by the Amtrak Sunset Limited (Trains 1 & 2) resumes effective with the departures of the eastbound Train 2 on Wednesday, Sept. 13, from Los Angeles and westbound Train 1 on Saturday, Sept. 16, from New Orleans.

Amtrak appreciates the work done by Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway to reopen the portion of the route that was closed between San Antonio and New Orleans following the landfall of Hurricane Harvey.
  by John_Perkowski
 
Union Pacific Corporate Update on Harvey

BNSF update

Kansas City Southern reporting end of force majeure and embargoes.

Finally, as noted in the Amtrak forum, the Sunset Limited, Trains 1/2, are starting their service again.

With these updates, we will retire this thread on Friday to General Discussion, Class 1.