JOHNSTOWN \u2014 A second daily Amtrak Pennsylvanian passenger train between Pittsburgh and New York City, with stops in Johnstown, is scheduled to begin service Nov. 18.<\/p>\n
The official announcement was made last at the Johnstown Train Station, 47 Walnut St., downtown Johnstown.<\/p>\n
Currently, the eastbound Pennsylvanian leaves Pittsburgh at 7:30 a.m., then stops in Johnstown at 9:02 a.m., Harrisburg at 12:55 p.m. and New York City at 4:50 p.m., according to a search of Amtrak\u2019s online ticketing service.<\/p>\n
The 444-mile westbound route goes from New York City (10:02 a.m.) to Harrisburg (2:36 p.m.) to Johnstown (6:15 p.m.) to Pittsburgh (8:05 p.m.).<\/p>\n
That schedule will be done away with.<\/p>\n
The yet-to-be-officially-announced new times will be, according to an informal search for post-Nov. 18 tickets at Amtrak\u2019s website:<\/p>\n
\u2022 New York City, 5:50 a.m.; Harrisburg, 9:39 a.m.; Johnstown, 1:21 p.m.; Pittsburgh, 3:14 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 New York City, 12:25 p.m.; Harrisburg, 4:25 p.m.; Johnstown, 8:05 p.m.; Pittsburgh, 9:54 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pittsburgh, 7:10 a.m.; Johnstown, 8:42 a.m.; Harrisburg, 12:35 p.m.; New York City, 4:43 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pittsburgh, 1:00 p.m.; Johnstown, 2:32 p.m.; Harrisburg, 6:23 p.m.; New York City, 10:25 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe significance of these additional trains should not be understated,\u201d Amtrak board member Robert Gleason, a Westmont resident, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese additional Pennsylvanians will have a significant economic impact on this entire region. It will connect Johnstown and the region to the rest of the country in a way that we have not seen since the 1950s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Completing plans for the new train came after years of intergovernmental discussions, funding acquisitions and construction work to make the new line possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday would not have happened without that advocacy over those many years,\u201d Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll said.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Senate Majority Whip Wayne Langerholc Jr., R-Richland Township, said the new train \u201chas been long in the making.\u201d He added: \u201cIt was kind of all just coming together at the right time when it needed to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Proponents of adding the new Pennsylvanian contend that it will provide an economic boost to the area by giving people another way to travel for work and leisure.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is momentum,\u201d Cambria Regional Chamber President and CEO Amy Bradley said. \u201cThis is Johnstown being connected, being accessible. This is Johnstown changing and Johnstown being open for business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cambria County Commissioner Keith Rager said the additional train can help Johnstown grow as a bedroom community for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is much more than transportation,\u201d Rager said. \u201cIt is a key to growing our economy, growing our downtown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t look at a passenger rail simply as transportation. We can see that it is an engine to grow our region and our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Western Pennsylvanians for Passenger Rail President Mark Spada predicted that \u201cthere will be tremendous ridership\u201d for the second train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHNSTOWN \u2014 A second daily Amtrak Pennsylvanian passenger train between Pittsburgh and New York City, with stops in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36118,1883,17324,49126,105938,6900,6170,64475,105935,238,105937,9023,28,82217,73,75,74,3108,105932,105933,94287,87380,7087,21074,6167,6166,80211,64476],"class_list":["post-305546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-amtrak","tag-civil-engineering","tag-economics-of-sustainability","tag-energy-conservation","tag-industrial-engineering","tag-johnstown","tag-land-transport","tag-land-vehicles","tag-new-urbanism","tag-new-york-city","tag-passenger-rail-transport","tag-passenger-train","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvanian-train","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-public-transport","tag-rail-transport","tag-rolling-stock","tag-sustainable-technologies","tag-sustainable-transport","tag-train","tag-trains","tag-transport","tag-transport-infrastructure","tag-transportation-engineering","tag-wheeled-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}