Amtrak trains to and from Vancouver back on the rails

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Passenger bid work is mostly backmost connected the rails in Vancouver, including to and from Seattle and Portland, aft Amtrak had removed bid cars from work implicit corrosion concerns.

26 rider cars from Cascades way had concisely been removed from work implicit corrosion, property concerns

Akshay Kulkarni · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 06, 2025 7:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

A antheral wearing a disguise stands successful the doorway of a bid marked 'Amtrak.'

Passenger bid work is mostly backmost connected the rails in Vancouver, including to and from Seattle and Portland, aft Amtrak concisely pulled much than 2 dozen train cars from work implicit corrosion concerns.

U.S.-based Amtrak removed the cars past week aft saying caller inspections had recovered issues with aging and corrosion connected 26 of them.

Passengers were bused to and from their destinations instead, with the enactment of a refund, rebooking oregon reimbursement if the rider had paid for concern class.

The Cascades way has 18 stops, including its northernmost terminus successful Vancouver and southernmost successful Eugene, Ore.

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American rider obstruction corporation, Amtrak, is replacing astir of its railcars with buses on its Cascades route. The fleet was pulled aft inspectors recovered corrosion connected the railcars. As Jon Hernandez reports, bid passengers weren't excessively thrilled to spot their question plans upended.

On Sunday, Amtrak spokesperson Kelly Just confirmed that the trains were restored and present operating connected schedule.

"Since each replacement bid is moving with a constricted fig of cars and less disposable seats, we promote customers to publication successful advance," she wrote successful a statement.

Amtrak said the Bombardier-built rider cars have been successful work since 1989. Across its full operation, the institution temporarily removed a full of 70 of the Bombardier Horizon cars.

"During regular daily inspections, we spotted immoderate corrosion and truthful we pulled immoderate of the fleet and had them acquisition much intensive inspection, and came to the decision that the corrosion was to a level that we disquieted astir the structural integrity during a crash," Just said astatine the clip of the cars being pulled.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Akshay Kulkarni is an award-winning writer who has worked astatine CBC British Columbia since 2021. Based successful Vancouver, helium is astir funny successful data-driven stories. You tin email him astatine [email protected].