National Train Day

[1] National Train Day was cancelled after 2015 due to budget cuts within Amtrak,[2] although many rail organizations and railfans continue to observe the holiday.

This includes Acela Express and Keystone Service sets in the Northeastern cities, and Superliner cars in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Antonio and Florida that are used on long-distance trains in those regions.

Because of a scheduling conflict on the original National Train Day in 2008, Toledo Union Station hosted their NTD event a week before the rest of the country in 2008.

This tradition of having the 'first' Train Day has continued every year since at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza Amtrak and intermodal station.

[3] Besides events at active Amtrak stations, railway history museums participate in National Train Day as well.

A welcome sign at Chicago Union Station highlighting a National Train Day event in 2010
Amtrak 406 at Washington Union Station for National Train Day 2011 painted in heritage livery with markings commemorating the start of Amtrak service.
An interpretive sign aboard an Amfleet coach for National Train Day 2014