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III and IV models), are still in service on New Jersey Transit, Metro-North (where they are called Shoreliners) and MBTA in Boston. The Horizon cars’ removal from service was due to Amtrak’s discovery ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — All Amtrak Cascades trains have returned to regular service after an 11-day disruption caused by the removal of Horizon-model passenger cars from service nationwide, officials ...
Amtrak announced Wednesday that a routine inspection had revealed corrosion in several of its Horizon model passenger cars, and decided to pull all Horizon cars in its national fleet from service ...
Amtrak Cascades will begin restoring train service this week following last week's nationwide grounding of all Horizon-model passenger cars due to corrosion, which left the Cascades line with only ...
Still, the Airo represents a technological improvement on former Amtrak models ... its entire Horizon fleet after inspectors uncovered potentially dangerous corrosion on several cars.
including 26 cars on the Amtrak Cascades route. “This leaves just one non-Horizon trainset in service on Amtrak Cascades. This affects nearly all trips on Amtrak Cascades daily service to 18 ...
Widespread cancellations of Amtrak routes impacted travelers in late March after the agency removed its fleet of Horizon passenger cars due to concerns over corrosion. The removal of the corroded ...
Corrosion discovered on Amtrak’s aging Horizon-class railcars caused the trouble. The rail company immediately removed all 70 of its Horizon train cars from the fleet nationwide, including 26 ...
Amtrak found corrosion issues in several Horizon rail cars, it announced Wednesday, which the rail agency uses for nearly all of its trains on the Amtrak Cascades route. The agency “decided to ...
for a short while “Following the discovery of the corrosion on the Horizon cars, we made the decision to remove them from service across the country,” she said. “When it comes to the Amtrak ...
Amtrak has revealed ... given that some of its old cars are going out of service: Just last week, the rail service announced that it would be suspending its entire Horizon fleet after inspectors ...