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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmtrak temporarily suspended between Missouri and Texas
ST. LOUIS Amtrak says flooding is forcing it to suspend service between St. Louis and Fort Worth, Texas, until June 7.
Amtrak officials said in a news release Friday that flooding has diverted freight train traffic onto tracks used by the passenger train service.
Service between Chicago and St. Louis and between San Antonio and Fort Worth will continue as usual.
No substitute transportation is available other than the scheduled Trinity Railway Express commuter train service between Fort Worth and Dallas, which is ticketed separately.
Read more: https://www.swtimes.com/news/20190531/amtrak-temporarily-suspended-between-missouri-and-texas
(Fort Smith Times Record)
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Amtrak temporarily suspended between Missouri and Texas (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Jun 2019
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Eliot Rosewater
(34,285 posts)1. get used to it...climate change is going to cause pure hell
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,947 posts)2. You got that right.

PoindexterOglethorpe
(28,493 posts)3. I believe the Amtrak trains between St. Louis and Kansas City have
not operated for some two weeks now. Also flooding.