BLET News
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Daily Headlines
Railroads roll out ads
NEW YORK -- The scene is a dark and windswept afternoon in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. A weathervane sporting a thoroughbred spins atop a farmhouse. Then, accompanied by a slow rumbling, a voice says, "There's a change in the air." That rumbling, it turns out, is a...
Acela service reduced as new cracks appear
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak slashed its Acela Express high-speed train service in the Northeast again yesterday after discovering new cracks in four of the locomotives that were returned to service this week, forcing thousands of passengers to scramble for another ride,...
Amtrak finds cracks in four trains
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak said on Tuesday it discovered additional hairline cracks on four high-speed Acela trains, slowing the passenger railroad's drive to restore service along the heavily traveled Washington-Boston corridor, a wire service reports. Amtrak has been...
Amtrak finds more cracks and juggles service
NEW YORK -- Amtrak faced growing problems yesterday in trying to restore high-speed Acela Express service along the busy Boston-New York-Washington corridor. It used conventional locomotives for four of its eight scheduled trains, according to the New York Times....
Unions call rail strikes in northern England
LONDON -- According to a wire service, two rail unions on Monday called a series of 24-hour strikes that will hit travelers on three days this week, including the long August holiday weekend. In a long-running pay dispute, members of the Rail Maritime and Transport...
Speed restrictions eased for VRE, MARC trains
WASHINGTON -- Washington area rail commuters fed up with slow rides home on VRE and MARC trains received some welcome news Monday, reports WJLA TV. Freight operator CSX annonced that it's easing the heat-related speed restrictions put in place after the Amtrak...
Opinion: Why rail travel is the future
NEW YORK -- On a Thursday in March 1776, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson whizzed through the English countryside in a post chaise at 10 m.p.h. Dr. Johnson said contentedly, "Life has not many things better than this." Transportation has been deteriorating ever since,...
Amtrak CEO says full high-speed service still days away
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak put nine of its Acela Express passenger trains back into duty on Monday, but the railway's president said it will be days before the high-speed service returns to full strength, a wire service reports. The first train left Washington at 5 a.m. EDT...
Acela back, but many passengers aren’t
BOSTON -- The Boston Globe reports that the Amtrak ticket clerk at South Station had just pulled up the heavy white board from her closed window yesterday when her first customer asked for a one-way ticket on the 6:15 a.m. Acela Express to New York. ''There is no...
Amtrak’s quicker trains again serve the Northeast
NEWARK, N.J. -- Amtrak restored most of its Acela train service today, but with half of its high-speed fleet still in need of repairs, officials conceded it could be days before the system was fully operational again, according to the New York Times. Nine repaired...
