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...
December 1, 2021 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Source: Cleveland.com, November 30, 2021) CLEVELAND, Ohio — A bipartisan group of legislators from Ohio, Illinois and Indiana is supporting a request from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) for a grant to study how to relieve passenger and...
November 30, 2021 | Amtrak, CSX, Headlines, STB
(Source: Trains Magazine, November 30, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Score one small win for Amtrak in its ongoing effort to restore its Gulf Coast service. The Surface Transportation Board on Monday issued a decision honoring Amtrak’s request for an order allowing it...
November 30, 2021 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, DOT, FRA, Headlines, Legislation
(Source: JD Supra, November 23, 2021) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, H.R. 3684 (117), was signed into law by President Biden on November 15, 2021. In addition to $66 billion in funding for passenger and freight railroads, the law...
