The trains that might stop running carry everything from the food on your dinner table to this year's Halloween costume.
-- Thirty percent of all the items transported in the U.S. is shipped by train – and come Friday, those trains couldThe trains carry everything from the food on your dinner table to this year's Halloween costume – and the pending national freight rail strike could create massive issues with the supply chain and delay it all.
Amtrak is already canceling a total of 10 long-distance routes beginning Wednesday due to the looming labor dispute. The Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles, the California Zephyr from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle, have all already been canceled.
If the strike goes ahead, most trains in this country would stop including - those shipping grain, fruits and vegetables, coal, and chlorine to keep our water clean.Insiders do not expect the situation to get to a Friday strike. But if it happens, it would be the job of Congress to mediate through it - and there isn't much hope inside the industry given the current political climate.
"A day or two, as we said, it's not something that we're going to feel that much," said Washington University St. Louis business professor Panous Kouvelis."But if we start talking about a week, or two weeks, or three weeks, it's going to be really serious." Insiders do not expect the situation to get to a Friday strike.
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