Amtrak adds trains to Thanksgiving holiday schedule

Posted on November 13, 2015

By Joe Ragusa

NORMAL – A record number of people traveled on Amtrak during the Thanksgiving holiday last year, so the travel service is going to add more trains to its routes in Illinois.

“It’s a very busy travel season,” Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said. “The regular service sells out so we wanted to make sure we ran some extra service to get people where they need to go for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.”

Magliari said tickets go fast.

“There are still some seats available on the regular trains and on these extra trains,” Magliari said. “But the longer you wait, the closer you get to (Thanksgiving) and the more likely these are to sell out.”

The Bloomington-Normal to Chicago route will have an extra train added to its schedule on the Wednesday before and the Sunday after Thanksgiving in addition to all of the other additional routes across the state. Visit Amtrak.com for more information.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].

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