With a tentative agreement in place to avoid a freight railway strike, Amtrak is now working to resume service for trains it had canceled.
would have had profound ripple effects on the supply chain and economy, driving up prices even more as inflation remains high.Amtrak workers are not involved in the labor dispute between the country's largest freight railroad companies and their workers.
However, most of the passenger railroad's long routes use track owned and maintained by the freight railroads,With the strike looming, Amtrak announced Wednesday that it was canceling all of its long-distance routes starting Thursday. With the new deal in place those trains can be rescheduled.
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