Is Amtrak protecting New Orleans equipment?

Trains Magazine Passenger
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With the flood gates closing by Friday morning is or has Amtrak removed all rolling equpment from NOL ? The present forecasts say Barry may cause a storm surge on the Mississippi river to 1 foot below all city levees. If the storm surge is higher then what ?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-10/new-orleans-faces-threat-of-two-sided-flood-as-storm-bears-down

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-cruise-ship-rerouted-due-weather-threat-64264168

WWL-tv keeps a running advisory on the following link.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/weather/hurricane/live-updates-tropical-storm-barry-likely-to-be-cat-1-hurricane-at-landfall/289-25b24eab-ec99-41d1-a931-5eb0c19964b9

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^^^ Why do you post these things presumming Amtrak management is competent and on the ball? Embrace the suck like the rest of us. [;)]

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Well, if they don’t want an embarassing replay of what happened to NJ Transit’s rolling stock in the Meadowlands Maintanence facility during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 you’d better believe they’ved moved the equipment.

Assuming they’ve got someone willing to make a decision, which NJ Transit didn’t have. [:-^]

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NB CNO On Time past Jackson, MS

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Bet they move the school buses this time …