
Amtrak’s Texas Eagle has detoured many times over the former route used by Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger trains between Chicago and St. Louis. No. 22 is shown passing through Tuscola, Illinois, on Aug. 6, 2012.
The Texas Eagle will detour and certain Lincoln Service trains will operate on modified schedules next week due to Union Pacific track work.
On Sept. 17, Train 307 will operate between Chicago and Bloomington-Normal, Illinois.
Alternate transportation will be provided for the missed stops at Springfield and St. Louis.
On Sept. 18, Trains 300, 302, 304 and 306, will operate between Bloomington-Normal to Chicago. Alternate transportation will be provided between St. Louis and Normal with the buses operating earlier than their corresponding train schedules.
Also on Sept. 18, Trains 301, 303 and 305 will operate between Chicago and Bloomington-Normal.
Alternate transportation will be provided south of Normal with the buses operating later than their corresponding train schedules.
The Eagle on Sept. 18 will detour in both directions between Chicago and St. Louis and miss the scheduled intermediate stops in Illinois at Joliet, Pontiac, Bloomington-Normal, Lincoln, Springfield, Carlinville and Alton.
No alternate transportation will be provided for missed stops for passengers traveling from Chicago to those stations.
Passengers traveling to Chicago will remain on board Train 22 upon its arrival in St. Louis from San Antonio.
Passengers traveling to Alton, Carlinville, Springfield, Lincoln, Bloomington-Normal, Pontiac and Joliet will disembark in St. Louis and board bus 3322.
Amtrak said Nos. 21 and 22 may incur up to 60 minutes in delays along the detour route.