Equipment issues lead to three Amtrak cancellations on Chicago-Milwaukee route

Equipment issues lead to three Amtrak cancellations on Chicago-Milwaukee route

By Trains Staff | January 6, 2025

| Last updated on August 6, 2025


Passenger train on slight curve
Amtrak Hiawatha No. 338 rolls through Deerfield, Ill., on Feb. 25, 2024. Equipment issues have led to cancellations for two Hiawathas and a Borealis in about 24 hours. David Lassen

CHICAGO — Citing equipment issues, Amtrak has cancelled one Hiawatha today (Jan. 6), after two other cancellations along the same route Sunday.

The cancellations of today’s Milwaukee-Chicago train No. 336, a scheduled 1:05 p.m. departure, as well as Sunday’s St. Paul-Chicago Borealis and Chicago-Milwaukee Hiawatha No. 341, are are all attributed to equipment and separate from the weather-related cancellations announced on Saturday, Jan. 4, and updated Sunday [see “Amtrak announces extensive storm-related cancellations,” Trains News Wire, Jan. 4, 2025]. On the Northeast Corridor, the company also had an equipment-related cancellation of part of an Acela trip on Sunday.

Substitute bus service is being offered for today’s cancellation.

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