Snippety Snap (she/her)<p>The entire Pacific Northwest region of the US essentially has no train service indefinitely. </p><p>"Amtrak determined its fleet of Horizon trainsets had to be parked immediately due to concerns about corrosion in the aging equipment. </p><p>The decision left only one trainset in service on the route that serves 18 stations between Eugene, Oregon and Vancouver, British Columbia."</p><p><a href="https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/mar/26/amtrak-cascades-riders-shuttled-onto-buses-after-trains-grounded-suddenly/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cascadiadaily.com/2025/mar/26/</span><span class="invisible">amtrak-cascades-riders-shuttled-onto-buses-after-trains-grounded-suddenly/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amtrak</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Transportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transportation</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/ShitholeCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShitholeCountry</span></a></p>
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Vagrant Cascadian<p>Nearly all the passenger trains from Eugene to Seattle are cancelled indefinitely while they figure out some... corrosion problems?</p><p>We need a real passenger rail system...</p><p><a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/26/amtrak-pulls-cascades-railcars/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">opb.org/article/2025/03/26/amt</span><span class="invisible">rak-pulls-cascades-railcars/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amtrak</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a></p>
simonbp<p>Denver Union Station, just now. On the lower left, an RTD A Line Silverliner is pulling in from DEN, the 6th busiest airport in the world. On the right, the Amtrak California Zephyr departs to cross the mountains, Utah and Nevada desert, and eventually reach the outskirts of San Francisco. On the upper right is the Amtrak Ski Train, which on weekends heads up to the Winter Park ski resort, but is idle today.<br><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/denver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>denver</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amtrak</span></a></p>
Adrianna Tan<p>Sometimes when people who don’t like trains say ‘what? 18h? You can drive it in 8’, I say yes but that’s 10h of not riding a train; which sucks. </p><p>That confuses them. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transit</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amtrak</span></a></p>
Adrianna Tan<p>Polaroid photo taken this afternoon at Salinas train station on the way to Monterey. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BelieveInfilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BelieveInfilm</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FilmPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/InstantFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InstantFilm</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Polaroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polaroid</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amtrak</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Salinas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Salinas</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trains</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transit</span></a></p>
Tinker ☀️<p>Well shit.</p><p>I don't usually post bad news (because many here already know it) and try to concentrate on positive things that we can do to effect change.</p><p>But this sucks and I want to scream into the void.</p><p>The Amtrak (America's only "national" passenger rail service - there are smaller regional rail services, some that even cross a couple of states, but Amtrak is the only one that really goes all across the nation) CEO was forced to resign.</p><p>The US has shitty rail service as it is, and Amtrak is often hampered by state governments that don't want passenger rail (they're paid off by car companies, airplane companies, even bus companies, and even even freight RAIL companies).</p><p>But this just means that passenger rail is going to suck even more in the US and the US regime installs a loyalist to the Amtrak CEO position.</p><p>Texas can say goodbye to their high-speed rail line from Dallas to Houston:</p><p>(edit: And to be clear this isn't the worst of any of this by a long shot. It just hit me sideways today in the midst of everything else. Anyhoo... back to it)</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transit</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/rail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rail</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trains</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/passengerTrains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>passengerTrains</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amtrak</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-passenger-railroad-amtrak-ceo-abruptly-steps-down-2025-03-19/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/world/us/us-passen</span><span class="invisible">ger-railroad-amtrak-ceo-abruptly-steps-down-2025-03-19/</span></a></p>
AnnaAnthro<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amtrak</span></a> CEO steps down as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> insists ‘sad’ rail service needs to be privatized </p><p>The rail service operates in 46 states, two Canadian provinces - including <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Montreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Montreal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quebec</span></a> - and Washington D.C. </p><p>Amtrak set an all-time ridership record last year, of more than 32 million customers.</p><p>US Rail has frequently been targeted by Musk in the past who sees it as a direct competitor to his business interests including <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amtrak-ceo-steps-down-musk-privatization-b2718279.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/us-politics/amtrak-ceo-steps-down-musk-privatization-b2718279.html</span></a></p>
Austrian<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> Privatizing Amtrak is a good idea. Bureaucrats are bad managers. They are net tax consumers, parasites, exploiters. Customers and taxpayers (bureaucrats aren't real taxpayers!) will definitely benefit from privatization. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amtrak</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privatization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privatization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marketeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marketeconomy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Amtrak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amtrak</span></a> CEO Stephen Gardner is stepping down after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> leader <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> called for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transit</span></a> service to be <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privatized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privatized</span></a>.</p><p>Amtrak, also known as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is the national passenger <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/rail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rail</span></a> service for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>. It is nationally chartered, meaning the federal government is the majority stockholder. It also means Amtrak board members are nominated by the president & confirmed by the Senate.</p><p><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amtrak-ceo-steps-down-musk-privatization-b2718279.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/us-politics/amtrak-ceo-steps-down-musk-privatization-b2718279.html</span></a></p>
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