June 6, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
The following appeared on the Lincoln Journal Star website on June 3, 2011.) LINCOLN, Neb. — Flooding preparations have affected Amtrak’s operations out of Omaha, but most Lincoln passengers won’t be affected. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway has...
June 6, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on The Oregonian website on June 4, 2011.) PORTLAND, Ore. — Amtrak service between the Pacific Northwest and St. Paul, Minn. will remain suspended at least through Tuesday due to flooding in North Dakota. Amtrak suspended that portion of Empire...
June 3, 2011 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on June 3, 2011.) OMAHA, Neb. — Taking the train? You might end up on a bus, thanks to Missouri River flooding. Amtrak is busing passengers between Lincoln, Omaha and Creston, Iowa, because the rail line it...
June 2, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 1, 2011.) DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — Amtrak officials say flooding in separate areas of northern North Dakota has forced a temporary shutdown of passenger rail service between St. Paul, Minn., and Spokane, Wash.,...
June 1, 2011 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following on May 31, 2011.) NEW YORK — Amtrak and New Jersey Transit said they restored service that was temporarily halted amid a public- safety investigation of a reported gas leak in Elizabeth, N.J. Full story:...
June 1, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Daily Inter Lake website on June 1, 2011.) KALISPELL, Mont. — Northern railroad travel on Amtrak has been delayed indefinitely Dakota. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said Tuesday that high winds on Devil’s Lake in North Dakota caused the...
May 31, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Amtrak, the quasi-government-run passenger-rail system, was born on May 1, 1971. Since then, ridership on the Northeast Corridor has about doubled. And it could double again, in our humble opinion, once the plan to provide 220-mile-an-hour train...
May 27, 2011 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on The Hill website on May 26, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans should stop comparing Amtrak to trains operated by the former Soviet Union because Russia is now building more railways than the United States, a labor union said Thursday....
May 27, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Washington Post website on May 27, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans want to dismantle Amtrak, giving private investors the task of building and operating high-speed rail service between Washington and Boston. They believe that...
May 27, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on The Hill website on May 26, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a hearing Thursday on bolstering Northeast corridor high-speed rail with private investment, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) delivered a lengthy defense of the very public national rail...
