US state-owned rail carrier Amtrak has announced that it will cancel the New York to Montreal train until September to make infrastructure repairs on the route.
The train, called the Adirondack, has not been running to Montreal since last month, and the suspension of the connection was supposed to last until July.
“This suspension of service has been extended through September 2024,” Amtrak‘s customer service department announced. Passengers who had already bought a train ticket for the end of the summer are due to receive a notice from the US rail operator.
The train departing from New York now ends its route at Saratoga Springs in upstate New York. The train normally ran 11 hours between Montreal and New York, and about 117,000 passengers travelled on it in 2019 (the last full year it ran).
The New York to Montreal train has had a rough time in recent years
From 2020 to the present, the Adirondack train has gone through extremely difficult times. Its operation was halted with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and did not resume until three years later, in 2023.
But after just two months, the train was suspended again for several weeks as the arrival of the warm season created difficulties on several sections of the railway. Canadian rail legislation imposes speed restrictions on trains because of the condition of the infrastructure.
Ongoing track rehabilitation work should reduce the frequency of these problems, Amtrak officials said.
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