May 27, 2011 | AFL-CIO, Amtrak, Headlines
(The AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department issued the following on May 26, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Edward Wytkind, President of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), testified today before the House Committee on Transportation and...
May 26, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 25, 2011.) WILMINGTON, Del. — Amtrak officials say service has been restored after power issues on two trains and tracks between Wilmington and Newark in Delaware has forced the interruption of service between...
May 25, 2011 | Amtrak, CN, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Memphis Commercial Appeal website on May 24, 2011.) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Amtrak has resorted to busing City of New Orleans passengers between Hammond, La., and the Crescent City to get around a bridge outage at the Bonnet Carre Spillway....
May 24, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on The Day website on May 24, 2011.) NEW LONDON, Conn. — Amtrak officials announced Monday that the three-year project to replace the railroad bridge spanning the Niantic River is 50 percent complete. The project includes a track realignment...
May 24, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following editorial appeared on The Olympian website on May 24, 2011.) OLYMPIA, Wash. — More reliable train service should be in the future for Amtrak passengers on the Cascades line through Western Washington. That’s because the state accepted $780 million in...
May 24, 2011 | Amtrak, CN, Headlines
(The following appeared on the New Orleans Times Picayune website on May 23, 2011.) NEW ORLEANS, La. — Rail traffic on a major line just west of New Orleans has been halted after damage was discovered on a train bridge over the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The rail, owned...
May 24, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(The following appeared on The Hill website on May 23, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will use a Thursday hearing to press the Obama administration to rely more on private investment for a high-speed rail...
May 23, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on May 20, 2011.) CHICAGO — The Amtrak train that runs from Chicago to New Orleans is about to be back in business, weeks after being shut down because flooding made part of the route impassable. Amtrak says it’ll...
May 23, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the MSNBC website on May 20, 2011.) NEW YORK — With gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon and this summer shaping up to be the most expensive ever for air travel, some vacationers may be turning to another method of transportation: train...
May 20, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, Railroad Security
(The following appeared on the San Jose Mercury News website on May 19, 2011.) MARTINEZ, Calif. — A bomb threat at the Martinez Amtrak station Thursday afternoon shut down Amtrak’s Capitol Corridor rail line in both directions, delaying commuters and stranding...
