Amtrak has experienced a series of train cancellations because of “equipment unavailability,” as well as due to heat issues, in the Midwest and East on Tuesday and today (June 25, 2025), according to the company’s social media feeds.
In the Midwest, Wolverine Train No. 355, a 5:28 pm. departure from Pontiac, Mich., to Chicago, has been cancelled today, the third straight day that train has been cancelled. The original cancellation on June 23 was attributed to an engine failure. One Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha was also cancelled on June 23 because of equipment issues.
“We had a disruption in our Michigan services yesterday,” Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari wrote in an email, “resulting in buses being chartered to represent services that were unable to operate as trains. Root cause(s) are being determined.”
In the East, equipment unavailability is being cited for the cancellation of Northeast Regional train No. 66 from Roanoke to Washington; train No. 151, between Washington and Roanoke; Acela No. 2190, a 5:27 a.m. departure from New York to Boston; and Acela No. 2163, an 11:05 a.m. departure from Boston to Washington. On Tuesday, equipment-related cancellations included two Acelas and two Northeast Regional trains. Efforts to provide bus service to replace trains 66 and 151 were unsuccessful, the company said in an update.
Trains News Wire has asked Amtrak for further details on these cancellations.
Meanwhile, weather conditions are being cited for the cancellation today of four Piedmont trains — Nos. 74, 75, 76, and 77 — between Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., for the second straight day. Four trains — Nos. 71, 72, 73, and 78 — are still scheduled to operate.
Temperature-related speed restrictions were in effect from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday throughout the Northeast, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions, according to this Amtrak advisory. The same advisory has now been issued for today. The National Weather Service has extreme heat warnings in place in a region stretching from Huntington, W.Va., in the west to New York City and Wilmington, N.C., in the east.
News Wire will provide additional information as it becomes available.
— Updated at 11:27 a.m. with Amtrak comment, notice of heat-related speed restrictions for Wednesday, and additional information.
Every time I am told that “Root causes are being determined” I wonder if Kamela has yet figured out the “root causes” of illegal migration. Some of these questions are really tough and might require years to determine.
News media is populated by interns earning nine dollars an hour. I keep reading about record-breaking heat. It’s what we used to call summer. I understand the Wisconsin isn’t the entirety of the Midwest, but were are part of it. Record-breaking heat? We haven’t gone above 90F so far this year. Here in the Great Lakes it can get to 110F.
VIA was worse yesterday as of 2200h Tuesday nothing in the east was on time.