By Diego Mendoza-Moyers, Albany Times-Union; March 9, 2019
Schenectady
Food service may be coming back to Amtrak’s Empire Service train line connecting New York City’s Pennsylvania Station to the Albany-Rensselaer station this year, something a train passenger advocacy group has for years been lobbying for.
The Empire State Passengers Association has pushed for the reintroduction of food service to the route, which last year was one of Amtrak’s busiest, after dining options on the train route were removed in 2005 as a “cost cutting measure,” according to Bill Hollister, a government senior affairs manager for Amtrak.