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Photo: Will Waldron, Albany Times Union
Vintage private railcars are mustered at Albany-Rensselaer Train Station before a trip to Burlington, Vt. for a railcar owner’s convention on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in Rensselaer, N.Y. Eighteen cars will travel to the American Association of Private Railroad Car Convention. (Will Waldron/Times Union)
lessVintage private railcars are mustered at Albany-Rensselaer Train Station before a trip to Burlington, Vt. for a railcar owner’s convention on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in Rensselaer, N.Y. Eighteen cars will
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Trains at the Rensselaer train station Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 in Rensselaer, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
Trains at the Rensselaer train station Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 in Rensselaer, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
Photo: John Carl D'Annibale, Albany Times Union
Trains at the Rensselaer train station Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 in Rensselaer, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
Trains at the Rensselaer train station Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 in Rensselaer, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
Photo: John Carl D'Annibale, Albany Times Union
FILE - In this July 25, 2017 file photo, a New Jersey Transit train traverses the tracks in New York's Penn Station where a two-month repair project was underway by Amtrak. The Summer of Hell is ending and New York commuters say it didn't live up to the hype. Gov. Andrew Cuomo predicted infernal transit woes when Amtrak announced it would curtail service while performing extensive track repair work at Penn Station. Amtrak says the work has been completed and normal service will resume Tuesday, Sept. 5. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ORG XMIT: NY108
lessFILE - In this July 25, 2017 file photo, a New Jersey Transit train traverses the tracks in New York's Penn Station where a two-month repair project was underway by Amtrak. The Summer of Hell is ending and New
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The last stop on our trip, Grand Central Station
The last stop on our trip, Grand Central Station
Photo: Sarah Diodato
NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 31: People walk through Grand Central Terminal on January 31, 2013 in New York City. The terminal opened in 1913 and is the world's largest terminal covering 49 acres with 33 miles of track. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
lessNEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 31: People walk through Grand Central Terminal on January 31, 2013 in New York City. The terminal opened in 1913 and is the world's largest terminal covering 49 acres with 33 miles of
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FILE - In a Friday, July 7, 2017 file photo, commuters arrive in the New Jersey Transit portion of New York's Pennsylvania Station. a day after an Amtrak train was involved in a slow-speed derailment at Penn Station. A report shows that a faulty track condition caused the July 6 derailment at New YorkÂ’s Penn Station in an area where Amtrak is performing repairs that are causing service cutbacks for hundreds of thousands of commuters this summer. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) ORG XMIT: NYSP101
lessFILE - In a Friday, July 7, 2017 file photo, commuters arrive in the New Jersey Transit portion of New York's Pennsylvania Station. a day after an Amtrak train was involved in a slow-speed derailment at Penn
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 31: Travelers exit Pennsylvania Station, May 31, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 700058022
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 31: Travelers exit Pennsylvania Station, May 31, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 700058022
Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty
In an undated handout of a rendering, the planned glass entrance to the new Pennsylvania Station on 8th Avenue in New York. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the renovation for the busiest transit hall in the Western Hemisphere would be part of a series of projects including new air and rail terminals that he called “the biggest construction program in our state’s history.” (The Municipal Art Society of New York and Woods Bagot via The New York Times) -- NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH XXstory-slugXX BYCHARLES V. BAGLI and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS FOR JAN. 07, 2016. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. -- ORG XMIT: XNYT168
lessIn an undated handout of a rendering, the planned glass entrance to the new Pennsylvania Station on 8th Avenue in New York. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said the renovation for the busiest transit hall in the Western
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FILE - This April 24, 1962 file photo provided by the Library of Congress shows the main concourse of the original Pennsylvania Station in New York, looking from the southeast, photographed as part of the federal Historic American Buildings Survey. Elected leaders and railroad officials are celebrating the 100th birthday of the original Penn Station, Monday Oct. 18, 2010, as they begin the long-delayed expansion of the existing one.The old Penn Station was completed in 1910 and was torn down in the mid-1960s. (AP Photo/Cervin Robinson, Library of Congress, File)
lessFILE - This April 24, 1962 file photo provided by the Library of Congress shows the main concourse of the original Pennsylvania Station in New York, looking from the southeast, photographed as part of the
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NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 01: People wait on line to enter the famed Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal before during centennial celebrations on the day the famed Manhattan transit hub turns 100 years old on February 1, 2013 in New York City. The terminal opened in 1913 and is the world's largest terminal covering 49 acres with 33 miles of track. Each day 700,000 people pass through the terminal where Metro-Noth Railroad operates 700 trains per day.
lessNEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 01: People wait on line to enter the famed Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal before during centennial celebrations on the day the famed Manhattan transit hub turns 100 years old on
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The fate of Grand Central Terminal, threatened by the wrecker's ball, spurred a preservation campaign steered by Philip Johnson, left, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Bess Myerson and then-Congressman Edward I. Koch, among many others. The four are seen walking up Park Avenue from the terminal (in the background) in 1975. Koch, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as mayor of New York, died Friday morning, Feb. 1, 2013, at age 88. (Jack Manning/The New York Times)
lessThe fate of Grand Central Terminal, threatened by the wrecker's ball, spurred a preservation campaign steered by Philip Johnson, left, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Bess Myerson and then-Congressman Edward I.
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Repairs will shift Amtrak's Rensselaer trains to Grand Central Terminal
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Amtrak on Tuesday confirmed that trains from the Capital Region would be re-routed to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan while a bridge, tracks and a tunnel into Penn Station are repaired this summer.
The re-routing will begin May 26 and is scheduled to last until Sept. 4. The national passenger railroad said it would spend p to an estimated $45 to $50 million on the repairs, which include the Spuyten Duyvil railroad bridge that was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
Empire Service trains, plus the Ethan Allen Express serving Rutland, the Adirondack serving Montreal, and the Maple Leaf serving Toronto, all will be re-routed to Grand Central.
The Lake Shore Limited will only operate between Boston and Chicago, meaning that New York City and Hudson Valley travelers will have to get onto that train in Rensselaer instead using Empire Service trains.
Last summer, Amtrak redirected six weekday trains between the Capital Region and Manhattan to Grand Central while crews replaced and repaired tracks and other infrastructure at Penn. But with the closing of the bridge and tunnel, all upstate trains this summer will go to Grand Central.
Amtrak once operated its trains heading upstate out of Grand Central, a vestige of the days when the terminal hosted New York Central's intercity trains along the iconic Water Level Route. Because all other Amtrak services operated from Penn Station, people transferring to Northeast Corridor trains had to make their own way between the two stations.
In 1991, after a former freight line was rehabilitated, Amtrak shifted all service to Penn.
But the station has drawn criticism for its low-ceilinged, subterranean passageways that are in contrast to the vast spaces of Grand Central, which now serves commuters on the Metro North Railroad.
Amtrak and government officials are redeveloping the former Farley Post Office next door to Penn Station into a new train hall, to be named for the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, which will succeed the spacious Penn Station that was demolished in 1963 to clear the way for Madison Square Garden.
When demolition began that October, the station handled 200,000 passengers and 550 trains a day, according to The New York Times. Now, with the same 21 tracks it has had since its opening in 1910, the remnants of Penn Station handle 650,000 passengers, including those from the Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit, and 1,300 trains a day.
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Amtrak-announces-summer-construction-plans-12821170.php
