December 16, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, December 15, 2021) NEW YORK — Stephen J. Gardner is taking over Amtrak leadership on Jan. 17, 2022, succeeding William J. Flynn, the railroad reported on Dec. 15. Flynn, who is retiring, will remain as a senior advisor through the end of the...
December 16, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Associated Press, December 15, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s light at the end of the tunnel for passenger rail expansion projects thanks to the $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill enacted last month, nearly 20 years after Amtrak’s first Downeaster set...
December 15, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Railway Age, December 14, 2021) NEW YORK — In a Dec. 14 memo to employees, Amtrak CEO Bill Flynn reported that the railroad will “revert to our original vaccine mandate policy announced on Aug. 11, which will allow, on an interim basis, for testing as an...
December 15, 2021 | Accident, Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Billings Gazette, December 14, 2021) BILLINGS, Mont. — An Amtrak on-board service attendant, injured while assisting survivors of an Amtrak train derailment in September on the Montana Hi-Line near Joplin, is suing his employer and BNSF Railway for...
December 15, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 14, 2021) Amtrak today reported a $1.08 billion loss in adjusted operating earnings during fiscal-year 2021, a reflection of the pandemic’s toll on the national intercity passenger railroad. Full story: Progressive...
December 15, 2021 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: Railway Track & Structures, December 14, 2021) NEW YORK — Following President Biden’s signature on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill a few weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) helped finalize an agreement with Amtrak where the...
December 15, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 14, 2021) ST. LOUIS — After a delay of more than three years, trains on Amtrak’s St. Louis to Chicago route are finally running regularly at speeds of up to 90 mph. Full story: Quad-City Times
December 13, 2021 | Amtrak, News
CLEVELAND, Ohio, December 9 — The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART-TD) yesterday filed motions for a preliminary...
December 13, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: The Hill, December 9, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak will cut services, and riders will experience slowdowns beginning this winter, in part as a result of the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, the company’s president...
December 13, 2021 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines, NS
(Source: Progressive Railroading, December 8, 2021) A federal judge yesterday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors. U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker in Georgia issued...
