Passenger Trains > Thansgiving holiday schedule

I was just taking a look at the Northeast Corridor Thanksgiving weekend schedule, as I was curious about the number of holiday extras that will run.

Some of them are labelled as "Northeast Corridor Extra" and a few are called "Holiday Extra" - is there a difference between the two?  If so, what is it?  Just a subtle way of signifying which trains will use borrowed commuter equipment?

If you go to the "buy tickets" function on the website, it clearly states that the trains in the 1000 series [1063] use commuter equipment.  There is also a link
that will take you to an explanation of what commuter equipment is like.

Here are the schedules with added trains. Looks like only the NEC will see commuter equipment but several extra trains added in the Michigan, Illinois and Surfliner markets.

http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/201/140/Thanksgiving-Holiday-Schedule-Northeast-Corridor-112315-new.pdf

http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/4/398/Thanksgiving-Holiday-Schedule-Michigan-Services-112515.pdf

http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/707/558/Thanksgiving-Holiday-Schedule-Illinois-Services-112515.pdf

http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/383/61/Thanksgiving-Holiday-Schedule-Pacific-Surfliner-112515.pdf

I would love to have had a picture of Metra equipment passing the Empire Builder I was on just outside of Milwaukee on Thanksgiving Day 1996. I saw it but certainly had no way of taking a picture. At least Amtrak is using commuter stuff on the NEC for some extra trains on Sunday though. Hopefully it leads to more.

Jim

Also of interest is even the South Shore has added an extra train for today and Saturday.

http://www.nictd.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Service-Information-Nov-21-29.pdf

It's cool that the last interurban in the US has added an extra run.

Jim

I notice there was no extra trains in the Pacific Northwest? I thought there were extras last year even after additional equipment came online to increase capacity and expand schedules in general.

Course extras come and go. There used to be extras even on the Empire Corridor to upstate NY and just to Albany. But that is no more........  

So then if we wanted to catch a couple of the "commuter" trains on the NEC, then the "Holiday Extras" are the ones to look out for, yes?

Jim Lipnitz
Morrisville, PA
Big Jim Video Productions

Yes, one round trip   SEA-PDX was operated.