March 11, 2011 | Amtrak, Canada, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Globe and Mail website on March 10, 2011.) TORONTO — David Gunn kept the trains running on time – and on the cheap – in New York, Washington and across the United States as president of Amtrak. Now the conservative transit guru is poised...
March 10, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Amtrak issued the following press release on March 9, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — February marked 16 consecutive months of Amtrak ridership growth and was the best February on record with 2,099,010 passengers. “The ridership increase shows the continued popularity of...
March 7, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on March 4, 2011.) DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — As Devils Lake and the Lake Region move slowly toward spring, concern is rising for the ability to maintain Amtrak services along the north route, of which Devils Lake is a part....
March 2, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by The Columbian appeared on the Seattle Times website on March 1, 2011.) SEATTLE — Another mudslide has disrupted service along BNSF Railway’s major north-south corridor between Portland and Seattle. The latest landslide occurred at about...
March 2, 2011 | Amtrak, BNSF, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Journal of Commerce website on March 1, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new agreement signed by the Washington State Department of Transportation, BNSF Railway and Amtrak clears the way to spend $590 million of a federal grant to upgrade...
February 28, 2011 | Amtrak, Commuter Rail, Headlines
(The Associated Press circulated the following on February 28, 2011.) TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is negotiating to reclaim part of nearly $162 million paid tunnel project that Gov. Chris Christie scrapped four months ago. Christie scrapped the $8.7 billion project,...
February 22, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on February 20, 2011.) CHICAGO — In the future, one of the carriers serving travelers at O’Hare International Airport may be Amtrak. Gov. Pat Quinn has asked Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman to conduct a study...
February 18, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Railway Age website on Febraury 17, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatatives Thursday approved cuts of various sizes for various government programs, but rejected a proposal to cut $446.9 million in Amtrak funding for the...
February 18, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, High Speed Rail
(The following appeared on The Journal of Commerce website on February 17, 2011.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite the Feb. 16 decision by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to decline $2.4 billion in federal grants and halt a planned high-speed rail line, the Department of...
February 17, 2011 | Amtrak, Headlines, Railroad Security
(The following appeared on the Great Falls Tribune website on February 17, 2011.) GREAT FALLS, Mont. — No bomb was found Monday evening on an Amtrak train at Browning, but the threat by a Minnesota college student that there was one jolted 140 passengers, who were...
