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Earnings preview: Railroads
(The Associated Press circulated the following on January 16, 2009.) NEW YORK — Railroads might be on shaky ground as they prepare to release earnings for the fourth-quarter - a period in which demand fell off dramatically as the economy slowed further. In past...
House Democrats propose $10 billion for rail, mass transit in economic stimulus package
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on January 16.) Yesterday, House Democrats unveiled the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, an $825 billion economic stimulus package that calls for $550 billion in spending on a range of...
Amtrak riders head to D.C. for Obama inauguration
(The following story by Josh Margolin and Claire Heininger appeared on The Star-Ledger on January 17, 2009.) NEWARK, N.J. — The bags were heavy. And the air was frigid. But the smiles were everywhere as passengers boarded an early-morning Amtrak train today that would...
President-elect’s train trip poses issues for Amtrak police, Secret Service
(The following story by Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers appeared at CNN.com on January 17, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — President-elect Barack Obama's January 17 train trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington is intended to make the inauguration the most...
Atlantan’s spirits soar as their ‘inaugural’ train pulls into D.C.
(The following story by Marcus K. Garner appeared on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution website on January 18, 2009.) ATLANTA, Ga. — They went to sleep Saturday night to the click-clack, click-clack, click-clack of Amtrak’s Crescent train from New Orleans. When they...
All aboard Capitol Limited to the inauguration feel they’re part of history
(The following story by Jason George appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on January 19, 2009.) ABOARD THE CAPITOL LIMITED — If trains could run on excitement and emotion, this past weekend's Amtrak from Chicago to Washington, D.C. would've sped faster than any...
Biden gets fitting send-off in Wilmington
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Randall Chase on January 18, 2009.) WILMINGTON, Del. — When Joe Biden — U.S. senator and Delaware resident — was running late for his trip to Washington, the train conveniently was delayed by some unknown...
Scranton Express a rolling celebration on rails
(The following story by Borys Krawczeniuk appeared on the Scranton Times-Tribune website on January 19, 2009.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — They came the Scranton way: on a train. It was a six-vintage-car, one-Amtrak-locomotive venture into the nation’s capital where one of...
Obama retraces Lincoln’s path on slow train ride to Capital
(The following story by Eli Saslow appeared on the Washington Post website on January 18, 2009.) ABOARD THE INAUGURAL TRAIN — On the final leg of a two-year road trip, Barack Obama rode into Washington on Saturday in an antique caboose with the contented look of a man...
Throngs witness Obama’s whistle stop tour to D.C.
(The Associated Press circulated the following story by Jennifer Loven on January 18, 2009.) WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Barack Obama is promising that he and Vice President-elect Joe Biden "will fight for you every day we're in Washington" as the pair visited...
