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Amtrak Ready For Holiday Travel
Amtrak is doing something this holiday weekend an official thinks hasn't happened before, at least in recent memory.

Spokesperson Marc Magliari says an extra train between Chicago and Quincy, making stops in Galesburg, will run on Sunday, because the normal Carl Sandburg and Illinois Zephyr trains have already sold out.

Magliari tells the WGIL Morning News by and large, it should be helping local colleges, but also the communities along those routes.

"Western, Knox, Monmouth, QU and Quincy and just folks. Faculty, staff students at these institutions really depend on us, but so do the towns I mean in Galesburg you have the relative luxury of having more trains back and forth than they do in Macomb and Quincy."

The trains will be traveling during the mid-day hours.

Also because of that extra trip, Magliari says train 383 -- part of the Illinois Zephyr -- will leave Chicago 20 minutes later than normal Sunday, and will operate on a modified schedule.

Amtrak expected Illinois routes to be sold out yesterday and today as well.
11 21 12 by Newsroom
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