Originally Posted by
DailyGrind
You may get something but also understand that today was a bit of a nightmare across the system. Ton of trains including Acelas were delayed or cancelled because of weather beyond NYC. May have been an issue of stresses elsewhere in the network rather than the lack of a contingency.
That's correct -- on Nov 1 the first four Acela BOS-WAS were cancelled due to downed trees/wires just south of New Haven. As the early F crews do a BOS-WAS-BOS round-trip, I can understand a shortage out of WAS on later northbound trips.