Amtrak Cascades is the regional intercity passenger service of the Pacific Northwest. Since mid March of 2020, train service north of Seattle has been suspended, initially due to the closure of the US-Canada international border. Due to a lack of spare passenger equipment and not enough qualified train crews on the section north of Seattle, service wasn’t immediately reinstated following the reopening of the border in 2021. Difficulties in sourcing enough spare equipment and hiring new crews further delayed the reimplementation of trips to Vancouver. On August 31st of 2022, Amtrak announced that service would resume to Canada with trains 516 and 519 making one round trip per day on September 26th, 2022. Prior to this announcement, Amtrak operated several crew qualification trips along the route in anticipation of the return of trains to Canada. We will now return the the BNSF Bellingham and Scenic subdivisions to watch these trains in August of 2022 as well as previous crew familiarization trips that were run in February of 2022 and March of 2021.

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