Heads up for anyone traveling through the Northeast Corridor in the near future, by train or by other method - The storms in the area have been causing severe delays and cancellations on both flights and trains due to outages and flooding, and for rail passengers in particular this summer has also been hot enough to cause delays by itself due to trains needing to run more slowly so as to not potentially warp the tracks. Please be aware of this when traveling, and also for Amtrak passengers taking thruway buses further north of Boston, given the delays you may want to consider buying the bus tickets separately from the train ones where possible - I know off the top of my head they sell thruway tickets on Concord Coach Lines buses from South Station into ME and NH, but those Amtrak thruway tickets are technically only good for travel the same day, while tickets bought directly through CCL's systems are open ended and good for 3 months on one-ways and 6 months on round-trips. In my experience the drivers tend to be understanding about it, but the official policy is that they're supposed to be used the date listed on the Amtrak ticket, so to save yourself the hassle it might be worth picking them up through CCL's system instead of Amtrak's. (Also I'd say avoid buying through Megabus if you can, those ones are only good for the trip you select and Megabus charges a transaction fee where CCL doesn't, which tends to push the price higher than buying through CCL in the first place unless you get the super cheap ones a good month out). Thought it was worth giving a heads up about!

Sincerely,

Someone who saw a person waiting an extra three buses for their passenger to come up on a thruway ticket a couple days ago due to the delays south of Boston even before the storms. It's oooooo it's something y'all good luck