May 5, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Karin Crompton appeared on The Day website on May 4, 2010.) EAST LYME, Conn. — Less than a mile from Amtrak’s $105 million job site and its promise of three years’ worth of jobs, dozens of people marched Tuesday morning to protest...
May 4, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Larry Sandler appeared on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel website on May 3, 2010.) MILWAUKEE, Wisc. — The company that runs Milwaukee’s downtown Amtrak-Greyhound station is $328,565 behind in its property taxes, prompting an alderman to...
May 3, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Gabrielle Russon appeared on the Kalamazoo Gazette website on April 30, 2010.) KALAMAZOO — The state has asked Amtrak to add another train from Kalamazoo to Chicago’s Union Station. Although it is too early to determine how likely the expanded...
May 3, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Bob Gehrt appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on April 30, 2010.) CHICAGO — As the Southwest Chief came alive and started wiggling its way through the switches outside Chicago’s Union Station, I thought of Thomas Wolfe’s quote,...
May 3, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Larry Hannan appeared on the Florida Times-Union website on May 1, 2010.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A passenger train traveled Saturday from Miami to Jacksonville for the first time since 1968 on the Florida East Coast railroad tracks. But obstacles...
May 3, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following column by Curtis Tate appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on April 30, 2010.) CHICAGO — U.S. travelers have grown accustomed to long airport security lines, delayed and crowded flights, and congested roadways. It should come as little surprise to...
April 30, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on April 29, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak, the U.S. long-distance passenger railroad, may face worse service and mounting mechanical woes unless it begins replacing its aging fleet next year,...
April 30, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following appeared on the Progressive Railroading website on April 29, 2010.) Amtrak is launching a $1 billion construction program to fund capital projects designed to rebuild, upgrade and modernize its tracks, bridges, stations and other infrastructure along...
April 27, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(Bloomberg News circulated the following story by Angela Greiling Keane on April 26, 2010.) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amtrak, the U.S. long-distance passenger railroad, paid freight railways 16 percent more last fiscal year to use their tracks, according to a report. Amtrak...
April 26, 2010 | Amtrak, Headlines
(The following story by Tim Landis appeared on the State Journal-Register website on April 25, 2010.) SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Texas Eagle, train 22, was 15 minutes late. Not bad, said longtime local travel agent Pat McKenzie. “I avoid it. It was always late,” McKenzie...
