SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — With the Saratoga horse racing season having begun last Thursday, Amtrak has announced it will extend Adirondack operations 37 miles beyond Albany-Rensselaer, N.Y., to Saratoga Springs starting Monday, July 24.

The New York City-Montreal train was the last state-supported corridor to be restored following nationwide discontinuances in March 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Daily round trips did not resume until this April [see “Adirondack tickets now on sale …,” Trains News Wire, March 17, 2023], although travel restrictions at the Canadian border were eased in 2021 and eliminated Oct. 1, 2022.