TEXAS, USA — Amtrak is restoring train service in East Texas, as negotiations appear to have avoided a possible railroad workers' strike.
Amtrak's Texas Eagle typically stops at train depots in Marshall, Longview and Mineola twice a day, but Amtrak stopped its long-haul train service after the morning trains on Wednesday because of the possibility of a strike involving freight train workers. While Amtrak employees weren't part of the potential strike, the company doesn't own the tracks its long-haul trains run on. Amtrak didn't want to have trains on the tracks at the time that a strike might start.
Spokesman Marc Magliari said Amtrak expects to start normal operations in the morning, which means the train that provides Texas Eagle service would leave San Antontio in the morning and arrive in East Texas the following morning, on Saturday.
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